Tom Flynn
Center for Inquiry — Amherst, NY
Tom Flynn is Executive Director of The Council for Secular Humanism, Editor of Free Inquiry magazine, Director of Inquiry Media Productions, and Director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum.
A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and freethought historian, Flynn is the author of numerous articles and editorials for Free Inquiry magazine. in addition to The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, his books include two anti-religious black comedy science fiction novels, Nothing Sacred (2004), its prequel Galactic Rapture (2000), and The Trouble With Christmas (1993), a secularist critique of the holiday. He has made hundreds of radio and TV appearances in his role as the curmudgeonly "anti-Claus." He designed the museum at the birthplace of 19th century agnostic orator Robert Green Ingersoll and co-conceived a related regional history project, the Freethought Trail.
Flynn's credits as a media producer include new HDTV documentaries about Robert Ingersoll and freethought publisher D. M. Bennett; the Council for Secular Humanism's cable access TV program The Humanist Perspective, which ran for more than 300 episodes; a 13-part public affairs radio series distributed via the National Public Radio satellite system; and Beyond Belief, a classic public-education video about skepticism.
Watch part one of Tom's talk about the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, a book which he edited; it was published by Prometheus Books in 2007:
