Dale McGowan (born February 28, 1963) is an American author, educator, podcaster, and philanthropist who has written and edited several books related to nonreligious life, particularly parenting without religion.

He edited and co-authored Parenting Beyond Belief (2007), a compilation of essays on raising children outside of religion.

Contributors to this volume included Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Penn Jillette, and Julia Sweeney.

Around the same time, he began to travel throughout the United States, giving seminars on secular parenting at atheist conventions, as well as Unitarian Universalist and Ethical Culture congregations.

"[7] His seminars and both books aim to help parents raise open-minded, inquiring kids and not to push them towards any particular world view.

A second edition of Parenting Beyond Belief with new contributors was released in 2016, and Sharing Reality: How to Bring Secularism and Science to an Evolving Religious World (co-authored with Jeff T. Haley) was published in 2017.

In January 2018, McGowan presented a TEDx talk in Atlanta on the changing nature of religion and irreligion in America.

The idea developed, and by 2009 McGowan had set up Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB), a nonprofit organization designed to encourage and facilitate charitable giving and volunteering among humanists and atheists.