Ep. 114 - Katherine Ozment, Author of Grace Without God

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Katherine Ozment is the author of "Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age." She has worked for National Geographic and Boston magazine and been published in the New York Times. She lives in Chicago with her husband and three children. For years now, she has been exploring how the ever-growing segment of non-religious parents raise their children. They're not all atheists, but they have to grapple with the Big Questions about life and death and belonging, all without supernatural faith. She wrote a magazine article about it a few years ago, and she has now written a full-length examination into the topic. I spoke with her about what secular "grace" looks like, why atheists may want rituals traditionally reserved for the religious, and how the landscape for atheist parents is rapidly changing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Catherine Osmond is the author of a new book called Grace Without God, the Search for Meaning,
0:36.7	Purpose and Belonging in a secular age.
0:39.8	She has worked for and written for National Geographic
0:42.6	and Boston magazine and been published in the New York Times.
0:45.9	She lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.
0:48.8	Catherine, thank you for joining me
0:50.9	and congratulations on the publication of this book. Thank you for joining me and congratulations on the publication of this book.
0:54.0	Thank you so much for having me.
0:56.0	Absolutely. So I think, correct me if I'm wrong, this whole book and this idea of looking into secular parenting,
1:03.7	maybe it started because I remember reading
1:06.4	an article you wrote for Boston magazine
1:08.3	about non-religious parenting back in 2013.
1:11.7	And I wonder if, I mean, have you been thinking about this topic and
1:15.0	looking into it researching it for like the better part of four years now or more?
1:19.1	Yeah it's been since that time and and I knew pretty quickly when I started writing that magazine
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