Dan Barker’s Australian tour
// March 1st, 2010 // 4 Comments » // Atheist, Dan Barker
Dan Barker is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and author of Godless: How An Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists (2008) and Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist (1992).
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 at a Friend’s (Quaker) Church, an Assembly of God, and an independent Charismatic church. Dan was a Protestant missionary in Mexico for a total of two years.
See below for his complete Australian tour schedule:
THURSDAY 11th MARCH
10.30am – 12.30pm: Debate at Macquarie University
Cardinal George Pell vs Dan Barker: “Without God we are nothing”
7.30pm – 9.30pm: Dinner/Talk in Bundeena, NSW
“Godless: From evangelical preacher to atheist”
SUNDAY 14th MARCH
Lecture at Global Atheist Convention, Melbourne
“Godless: From evangelical preacher to atheist”
MONDAY 15th MARCH
12noon – 1pm: Lecture at Australian National University
“Should government and religion be strictly separate?”
5.30pm – 7.30pm: Debate at University of Wollongong
Dr Greg Clarke vs Dan Barker: “Is Christianity the one true faith?”
TUESDAY 16th MARCH
11.30am – 1.30pm: Debate at Macquarie University
Dr Greg Clarke vs Dan Barker: “Is the Bible an acceptable guide for morality?”
4.30pm – 6.30pm: Debate at Macquarie University
Dr Chris Forbes vs Dan Barker: “Jesus of Nazareth: messiah or myth/legend”