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Dan Barker (born June 25 1949) is an prominent American atheist activist who served as an evangelical preacher for 19 years, but left Christianity in 1984. A successful musician, Barker has composed over 200 songs that have been published or recorded. He is the current co-president with his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an American Freethought organization that promotes the separation of church and state. Barker is co-host of Freethought Radio, a Madison, Wisconsin based radio program for atheists, agnostics, and other freethinkers that has included interviews with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Julia Sweeney, and Michael Newdow. He is also the author of Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist (ISBN 1-877733-07-5), and has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, America's only freethought newspaper.
He has a daughter named Sabrina Gaylor, born in 1989, who is also a member of his organization.
Media appearances
- Phil Donahue
- Oprah Winfrey
- Hannity & Colmes
- Maury Povich
- Good Morning America
- Sally Jessy Raphael
- Tom Leykis
Barker has also appeared on dozens of national radio programs and forums to discuss and debate issues related to atheism and the separation of church and state. He was featured in a New York Times article about atheists and has given addresses on relgious issues at several events across the United States, including one at Harvard University.
External links
- Dan Barker's FFRF biography
- Dan Barker's ProCon.org biography
- Godless And Proud of It -- New York Times
- Former preacher 'de-converts' to atheism
- Former Christian songwriter Dan Barker now an atheist
- Celebrity atheists -- Dan Barker
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