Dale McGowan
Dale McGowan, author of Parenting Beyond Belief
Parenting Beyond Belief is a book for loving and thoughtful parents who wish to raise their children without religion. There are scores of books available for religious parents. Now there's one for the rest of us.
Dale McGowan left a 15-year career as a college professor in 2006 to pursue writing full-time. Reviewers called his satirical novel Calling Bernadette's Bluff "an undoubted triumph of satire" and "a riot."
In addition to editing and co-authoring Parenting Beyond Belief, Dale co-authored Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief, which is due for release in February 2009. He writes the secular parenting blog THE MEMING OF LIFE as well as parenting columns for Humanist Network News, and edits the Humanist Parenting website for the Institute for Humanist Studies in Albany, New York.
While living in Minneapolis, Dale served as US Communications Coordinator for Nonviolent Peaceforce, an organization that trains unarmed civilian peacekeepers for deployment to conflict zones around the world. He also served as a charter member of the Critical Thinking Club, Inc. and has taught critical thinking skills in the college classroom, the corporate boardroom, and public venues. He holds degrees in physical anthropology and music theory from UC Berkeley as well as a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Minnesota.
In 1984, Dale met Becca (now a first grade teacher) when they were both members of the University of California Band in Berkeley, CA. They married in 1991 and now live near Atlanta, Georgia with their three ethical, caring kids: Delaney, Connor, and Erin.
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