Contributors

Adam Lee

Editor of OnlySky. Atheist author and speaker from New York City.

M L Clark

Canadian writer by birth, now based in Medellín, Colombia, publishing speculative fiction and humanist essays with a focus on imagining a more just world.

Dale McGowan

Founding Editor, OnlySky. Author of books on nonreligious life, creator of podcasts on music, parenting, and death.

Bruce Ledewitz

Professor of law at Duquesne University and author of several books, most recently "The Universe Is on Our Side: Restoring Faith in American Public Life."

Susan Fourtané

Science and technology journalist. Writer of speculative fiction.

Deedee Redletter

Deedee Redletter is a Big City Dyke here to talk about sex. She holds degrees in philosophy and information science. Her special interest has been human sexuality since she was three years old.

Becky Garrison

Writer with dual MDiv/MSW degree from Yale Divinity School and Columbia University. Focus on the rise of secular spirituality, religious satire, spiritual health and wellness.

Jonathan MS Pearce

Philosopher, author, columnist, public speaker.

Tom Krattenmaker

Writer specializing in religion, meaning, and values in public life. Longtime columnist for USA Today, author of three award-winning books.

Rebekah Kohlhepp

Curious atheist and creative introvert. Graduate of conservative Christian Grove City College with a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies.

Angie Dixon

Angie Dixon is a writer and artist exploring disability, neurodivergence, secular life, creativity, and meaning-making in ordinary human existence. She is the author of The Leonardo Trait and writes from Arkansas.

Rick Snedeker

Retired American journalist/editor, current author of nonfiction.

Jonathan Kassel

Jonathan Kassel is the pseudonym of an author, professor, and retired journalist living in the US Upper Midwest.

Michael Carteron

Writer from Denver who writes on religion, science, philosophy. He also creates original fantasy and science fiction.

Phil Zuckerman

Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College. Author of books including "What It Means to be Moral," "The Nonreligious," "Living the Secular Life," "Faith No More."

Dr. Eve Makoff

Internal medicine, palliative care physician, essayist and poet.

Marcus Johnson

Political commentator and political science Ph.D. candidate at American University. Research focused on the impact of political institutions on the racial wealth gap.

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Jack Matirko

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Katie Malone

Neurodivergent atheist and secular humanist. Currently living in Georgia.

Captain Cassidy

Gen Xer and ex-Pentecostal writing about the intersection of psychology, belief, popular culture, science, and religion.

J. H. McKenna

Professor of the history of religious ideas at the University of California Irvine.

Emery Blake

A secular existential humanist. Curious about people, culture and the human condition. Writer and lifelong student of life.

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Lisa Jarrington

Lisa Jarrington is the pen name of a writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Georgia Michelman

A reluctant recent Yale College graduate with backgrounds in physics, astronomy, and history.

V.B. Solentine

Writer on science, fashion, culture, tech, and the outsourcing of humanity.

Shawn Hardin

Founder and publisher of OnlySky. Serial entrepreneur, filmmaker, parent, concerned citizen, secular humanist, Stanford DCI Fellow and USC Film School grad.

Will Gervais

Global leader in the scientific study of atheism. Senior Lecturer of psychology at the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London.

Gillian Broaddus

Gillian (she/her) is a former English teacher, current marketer, and eternal dreamer. You can find her sometimes-profane thoughts on BlueSky at @youdontknowjill.bsky.social.

Lauren Phillips

Lauren Phillips is a Bronx-based environmental attorney, longtime organizer with NYC-DSA, and the co-founder of Kids Over Cars.

David Fountain

David Fountain is a Coastal Bend-based humorist, screenwriter, and columnist, and a graduate of Texas State University. His comedy starts with an absurd premise and follows it until it reveals something true about people, technology, and being human.

Kimiya Mousavi

Iranian researcher, writer, and teacher. Ex-Muslim atheist living in Iran, one of the theocracies in the world.

Eiynah

Pakistani-Canadian atheist who grew up in Saudi Arabia. A critic of both religion and online ‘movement atheism’.

James Croft

Philosopher, activist, and Humanist storyteller. University Chaplain at the University of Sussex.

Dr. Redfern Jon Barrett

Redfern Jon Barrett holds a Ph.D in literature and is the non-binary author of PROUD PINK SKY and THE GIDDY DEATH.

Brian Fogarty

Professor Emeritus of Sociology. Author of "Fascism: Why Not Here?"

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Brendan Kelley

Freelance journalist, cartographer, former educator. Associate at Tochnyi, data entry for Ukraine Daily Update Map. Focused on recording and investigating Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Mary T Luthenauer

Eleanor Johnstone

Writer with a Master's in Environmental Management from Duke University. Now consulting on transitioning the transportation sector to clean fuels in LA.

Andrew Fiala

Professor of Philosophy and director of the Ethics Center at Cal State Fresno.

Ryan Cragun

Husband, father, and sociologist of worldviews (in order of importance), with a research focus on Mormonism and nonreligion.

Alex "Flex" Williams

An ageing automotive engineer who experienced the internet revolution while in his twenties. His background includes military service, election to public office, and working alongside old farmers.

Michael Nam

Michael Nam has a long and varied media career from writing video game reviews to editing breaking news for CNN Business. Originally from New Jersey, he makes Queens, New York his home, where he's become civically engaged to an unhealthy degree.

Ulrich Stange

Ulrich Stange is a retired physicist. After a career of building instrumentation for biomedical research, his interest now is to promote the adoption of evidence-based science in everyday life.

Alix Jules

Senior Technologist at Google working for an inclusive, sustainable future where innovation doesn't leave people behind.

Chris Bastardi Martini

Chris Bastardi Martini runs PR firm Bastardi Associates. He has represented businesses, nonprofits, celebrities and those in politics on both sides of the aisle, including Mary Trump and Bridget Kelly. He blogs at SomethingProfound.org.

Sean Monaghan

Benjamin Wilson-Mawer

Systems architect now spearheading a pioneering AI-driven venture specializing in agentic systems and leveraging generative AI for business.

Keramet Reiter

Professor of criminology and law at the University of California, Irvine. Researches and writes about punishment.

Samantha Montano

Ph.D. in Emergency Management, author of "Disasterology," co-founder of Disaster Researchers for Justice and the Center for Climate Adaptation Research.

Juhem Navarro-Rivera

Political scientist, public speaker, research consultant. Political Research director and Managing Partner at Socioanalitica Research.

Robert Repino

New York-based editor for a scholarly publisher, author of several novels.

Tiago Svn

Freelance journalist with a passion for exposing the dark side of the video game world.

Tony Wolf

Tony Wolf is a writer and educator, formerly an action director/choreographer for feature films, TV, theater, opera and ballet.

Jeana Jorgensen

Folklorist and researcher of gender and sexuality.

Hector A. Garcia

Author, clinical psychologist, researcher, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Russell Glasser

Senior Software engineer. Former host of The Atheist Experience and other shows.

Evan Stewart

Assistant professor of sociology at UMass Boston with research focused on why people lose trust in institutions.

Dave Warnock

Caught up in the Jesus movement of the 70s, served a pastor for three different churches, now an atheist facing a terminal diagnosis of ALS. Following several years of

Andrew Spitznas

Mental health professional and film reviewer.

Casey Karaman

Writer, performer, improviser, and teacher who has worked with the Washington Improv Theater.

Jack Bowen

Educator, philosopher, coach, author of five books, TEDx speaker on awe.

Jenna Scaramanga

Freelance guitarist, journalist, and trans woman with views.

Bob Seidensticker

Past designer of digital hardware and contributor to 14 software patents. Now explores the debate between Christianity and atheism.

Editor, OnlySky

Adrian Pantoja

Professor in Political Studies and Chicano Studies at Pitzer College.