They're hard to find because they're just getting started, and their website is under construction, but the Freethinkers Atheists & Agnostics for Religious Tolerance (FAART) are hosting an event tonight in Pocatello, Idaho.

The guest speaker is Dan Barker.

Time: 7 PM
Place: 698 East Carter, Building 1, Pocatello
Details: Free and open to the public, meeting in Frazier Hall
URL: https://sites.google.com/a/isu.edu/freethinkers-atheists-agnostics-for-religious-tolerance/about-us

I got to hear Dan Barker speak and do a seminar at our local university about a year ago. It was FABULOUS! He's so rational and has such a great background story too (he used to be a minister). Of course, this is the Bible Belt so a bunch of people came as detractors and got up and made comments when he was taking questions. He did a fantastic job of defusing them.

but, then, I am very immature and have a puerile sense of humor.

Also, for anyone who would like to listen to the radio show featuring Dan Barker and his wife, Annie Laurie Gaylor, you can do so at the Freedom from Religion Foundation's "Freethought Radio" program.

http://www.ffrf.org/news/radio/shows/

Older programs are archived and they feature many interesting guests on the show.

Dan Barker of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, will also be speaking in Twin Falls and in Boise, Idaho (see comment #337 for event tonight, November 3, in Pocatello), as well as in Salt Lake City:

Dan Barker will talk at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls on Thursday, November 4, at 7:00 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall (315 Falls Ave.). The talk will be followed by a concert of jazz standards written by freethinking songwriters (such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, and Yip Harburg) with Dan at piano joined by student and faculty musicians. The event is sponsored by the Secular Student Alliance at CSI (Facebook page). Email faculty advisor Brent Jensen at bjensen(AT)csi(DOT)edu (Event in cooperation with the Secular Student Alliance.)

November 5 - Boise, Idaho: Dan Barker is scheduled to speak at Boise State University on Friday, November 5. Event is orgainzed by the Secular Student Alliance at Boise State. Details to follow. (Event in cooperation with the Secular Student Alliance.)

November 6: Dan Barker will talk about "Godless: How An Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists" at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Saturday, November 6, at 7:30 pm in the Orson Spencer Hall Auditorium. The event is sponsored by SHIFT (Secular Humanism, Inquiry and Freethought), a student group. (Facebook page) Email jason(DOT)cooperrider(AT)hsc(DOT)utah(DOT)edu. (Event in cooperation with the Secular Student Alliance.)

On November 13, Dan Barker will be in Mexico City with a whole raft of famous non-believers.
"First-ever Atheist Conference of Mexico"

Source: http://www.ffrf.org/outreach/events/

In case you don't know Dan Barker, here's a debate in which Barker debates Cardinal Geoge Pell in Sydney, Australia
http://www.archive.org/details/FfrfCo-presidentDanBarkerVs.CardinalArchbishopPell

Full bio for Dan Barker here:
http://ffrf.org/about/getting-acquainted/dan-barker/

Excerpts:

"Dan became a teenage evangelist at age 15. At 16 he was choir librarian for faith-healer Kathryn Kuhlman’s Los Angeles appearances. He received a degree in Religion from Azusa Pacific University and was ordained to the ministry by the Standard Community Church, California, in 1975. He served as associate pastor in three California churches...Dan was a Protestant missionary in Mexico for a total of two years.

"Dan preached for 19 years. He maintained an ongoing touring musical ministry, including eight years of full-time, cross-country evangelism. An accomplished pianist, record producer, arranger and songwriter, he worked with Christian music companies such as Manna Music and Word Music. For a few years, Dan wrote and produced the annual “Mini Musicale” for Gospel Light Publications’ Vacation Bible School curriculum....

"He announced his atheism publicly in January, 1984. He tells his story in the books Losing Faith in Faith (1992) and Godless (2008).

"Dan was PR Director of the Freedom From Religion Foundation from 1987 to 2004. He was elected co-president of the Foundation with Annie Laurie Gaylor in 2004, with whom he is co-host of Freethought Radio..."

For those that have read the newspaper about the group, there is a mistake. The group has NOT taken any action on the cities invocation. I have done that personally. If the group wants to become involved it would be great, but I will not put others in the line of fire without their consent. Got to get back to class.
Tkx and I look forward to seeing those that can come.