Herb Silverman to speak June 25 at Unitarian Church in Charleston

On Sunday, June 25, at 10:00,  Dr. Herb Silverman will speak at the Unitarian Church in Charleston. Herb will talk on his latest book, An Atheist Stranger in a Strange Religious Land: Selected Writings from the Bible Belt, a compilation of some of his best writings, arranged topically,works that were published in the Huffington Post, The Humanist, the Post and Courier, and the City Paper.

 From Orthodox Jewish child in postwar America to mild-mannered mathematician in academia to legendary atheist activist in the heart of today’s Republican South, Herb Silverman has always been outside the mainstream of American culture, politics, and religion. From this unique vantage point, he writes about the most pressing issues of our day, including those related to war, peace, patriotism, race, gender, and church-state separation. In this entertaining and thought-provoking volume, he curates some of his best written work. Silverman may see himself as an atheist stranger in a strange religious land, but thanks in part to his work as activist and author, atheists as a whole are no longer strangers in this increasingly irreligious land.

Herb Silverman is founder of the Secular Coalition for America, founder of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the College of Charleston, where he was founder and faculty advisor of the student Atheist/Humanist Alliance. He ran for governor of South Carolina in 1990 to challenge a provision in the state constitution that prohibited atheists from holding public office. After an eight-year battle, Herb won a unanimous decision in the South Carolina Supreme Court, which struck down this religious test requirement.