I’m glad I went, and I had a good time. That said, I most likely won’t go back. It’s amazing, what they’re doing. A free conference in the Midwest for non-believers, with this kind of lineup of stellar speakers? Anybody in the area who is remotely interested in these topics would be well-served in checking.
From Change.org: What’s in a name? A 12-year-old girl at Hernando Middle School in Mississippi was beaten by five fellow students — reportedly because they said her name, Randi, was “a boy name.” “They started talking about me like I was a man,” she told local news station WREG. “That I shouldn’t be in this.
Thousands of smiling, mild-mannered people with blue tote bags have descended on the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta. This is the 2010 American Academy of Religion conference. I’m posting from my room in that hotel, using the wireless internet that they made me pay for on top of the room rate. Why do expensive hotels.