Episode 17 – The Contender

Welcome to another in-depth movie episode on Geeks Without God.  We decided to watch The Contender after going over the listener answers we received in Episode 13.  The film stars Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater and Gary Oldman and features an atheist protagonist.  While her atheism is not the central source of conflict, it […]

Geeks Without God Partnering with Fearless Comedy Productions

You may have noticed a spiffy new button (showing a blindfolded dude) on our website.  If you click on it, you will be magically transported to the Fearless Comedy Production web site. Don’t click on it yet!  We aren’t finished here! …you clicked on it, didn’t you? The three of us are founding members of […]

Episode 16 – Vote No

Our guest this week is Tony Miller, who plays Shamus the Insulter at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival (as well as other festivals around the country).  He was raised in the Menonnite church but moved away from it when he was in his thirties, eventually resolving that he was an atheist.  As we talked about his […]

Live Recording at OmegaCon

Hey all you OmegaCon slackers out there!  We decided that since OmegaCon is our number one November Geeky Boner, why not just record our November Geeky Boner episode at OmegaCon? And as long as we were going to record at the convention, we thought we’d do another live recording.  Just like our first two episodes at CONvergence, […]

Be. Aggressive. B-E Aggressive.

In a small East Texas town this month, some cheerleaders made signs for the (public) school football game that quoted the Bible and referenced God. The banner read “Hebrews 12:1  And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us” and “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.” The […]

Episode 15 – Halloween Boners

For our October Geeky Boner episode, we talked about spreadsheets, Borderlands 2 (oh boy do we talk about Borderlands 2), and Tim’s band, The Dregs.  They just released a new CD (Do it Like You’re Drunk), which Molly and Nick recommend. We also spent a lot of time talking about Halloween because all three of […]

The Master

The three of us went to see P.T. Anderson’s newest film, The Master, in hopes we could use it as the jumping off point for another in-depth movie episode.  We have an upcoming episode about The Contender and we’ve also talked about Inherit the Wind and Prometheus so we’ve been thinking about making in-depth movie episodes […]

Episode 14 – Helllllllo Islam!

In this week’s episode, we talk with our friend Porter about recent protests in the Middle East.  We spend a lot of time talking about Islam – the first show in which we’ve spent a lot of time talking about that particular faith. We talk about the idea of wanting to kill someone in the […]

An Insider’s Guide to Upcoming Episodes

In case you’d like to know how things are shaping up over at Geeks Without God HQ, here’s what we have on tap for the next four weeks: October 9th – We talk with our friend Porter about his journey to unbelief and the concept of killing people in the name of imaginary friends.  Of […]

Episode 13 – Atheism Plus

This week is an all atheism episode!  We explore the difference in terminology between “atheist, non-believer,” and “skeptic.”  We talk about how we self identify our own beliefs about god and then we start talking about the atheism plus movement.  We get into very serious conversations about social justice and feminism as part of the […]