The “Coming Out Atheist” Donation Recipient for February 2014: Black Atheists of America

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As people know who have read advance copies of my upcoming book, Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, I’ve pledged to donate 10% of my income from the book to atheist organizations, charities, and projects.

Here’s why. I got lots of help with this book, and working on it felt very much like a collaboration, a community effort. (To some extent that’s true with any book, but it was even more true with this one.) Because coming out is really different for different atheists, it was hugely important to get detailed feedback on the book, so my personal perspective wasn’t completely skewing my depiction of other people’s experiences. So I asked lots of friends and colleagues to give me detailed feedback on the book: either on the book as a whole, or on particular chapters about atheists with very different experiences from mine (such as the chapters on parents, students, clergy, people in the U.S. military, and people in theocracies). Many people were very generous with their time helping out: they put a whole lot of time and work and thought into a project that wasn’t theirs, because they thought it would benefit the community. And, of course, I had the help of the hundreds of people who wrote in with their coming-out story, or who told their coming-out story in one of the books or websites I cited, or who just told me your coming-out story in person.

I want to give some of that back. So I’m donating 10% of my income from this book to atheist organizations, charities, and projects: a different one each month.

The recipient for February 2014: Black Atheists of America. If you want to support them too, here’s their donation page.

(And if you’re wondering how I could get income from a book that hasn’t been published yet: Advances.)

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The “Coming Out Atheist” Donation Recipient for February 2014: Black Atheists of America
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    […] The “Coming Out Atheist” Donation Recipient for February 2014: Black Atheists of America–”As people know who have read advance copies of my upcoming book, Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, I’ve pledged to donate 10% of my income from the book to atheist organizations, charities, and projects.” […]

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