Herb Silverman is the founder and president emeritus of the Secular Coalition for America; he is the founder of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry in Charleston, South Carolina; and he is the founder and former faculty advisor to the College of Charleston student Atheist and Humanist Alliance. He is a board member of the American Humanist Association; an advisory board member of the Secular Student Alliance; and an “On Faith” blogger for the Washington Post online. Herb has appeared in a number of debates on topics that include: Can we be moral without God? Does God exist? and, Is America a Christian nation? He has also debated at the Oxford Union in Oxford University on the topic, Does American religion undermine American values? After an eight-year legal battle, Herb won a unanimous decision in South Carolina’s Supreme Court, nullifying the state’s religious test to hold public office.