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May 5: Darwin Day Panel (Rescheduled from Feb.)

Posted by Sarah Chandonnet on April 8, 2013

ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re delighted to announce that our Darwin Day panel has been rescheduled for Sunday, May 5. And it’s better than ever!

Sunday, May 5
6:00pm
Harvard Hall 201
Reception to Follow 

Join us, along with Harvard Professor Joshua Greene, …

Posted in Community, Community Activities, Culture, Education, Reason, Science, Service, Values, Values in Action | Replies: 7
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Apr. 28: Values in Action Earth Day 2013

Posted by Sarah Chandonnet on April 3, 2013
Caring for our home planet is a core part of living out Humanistic values. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, we are hosting a day of activities on April 28 for the whole community: bringing children to a local …
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Humanists value logic and reasoning — but do we have our supernatural moments?

Posted by Catherine Caldwell-Harris on March 28, 2013

A story from the cognitive sciences has become increasingly well-known: humans have two modes for decision making, as popularized recently in Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking Fast and Slow, as well as by other scholars going back to the 1990s. …

Posted in Reason, Science, Secularism, Skepticism, Uncategorized | Replies: 2
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Mar. 24: Humanist Meditation for Beginners

Posted by Sarah Chandonnet on March 14, 2013

Life can be so stressful—it really helps to have places where you can learn techniques to help manage the stress and become more compassionate towards yourself and others. Especially for atheists, agnostics, and the nonreligious, it can be helpful to …

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A Decade of Books on the “Relgion is Natural” Theme

Posted by Catherine Caldwell-Harris on March 7, 2013

“Another atheism book?” my husband mumbled as I carried to the night stand a new hardback book. In fact, not. Edmond knows I study atheism and yes, I have Hitchens, Dawkins and Epstein lying around the house. But the new …

Posted in Science, Secularism, Skepticism | Replies: 3
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Mar. 3: LGBTQ Humanism

Posted by Sarah Chandonnet on February 26, 2013

March 3, 2013, 1:30pm
12 Eliot Street

We’re delighted to host Mykal Slack, a trans-identified minister who works to create safe spaces for LGBTQ folks in and outside the church. He works for economic justice, equal treatment in the workplace and ending

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Feb. 24: So, You Might Be an Atheist. Now What?

Posted by Sarah Chandonnet on February 19, 2013

February 24, 1:30 pm
Humanist Community Center
12 Eliot Street, 3rd Floor

Do you believe in reason, compassion, creativity, justice, integrity, awareness, environmentalism, feminism, equality, science, progress, and pluralism?

Have you ever called yourself atheist, agnostic, non-religious, freethinker, rationalist, secular, …

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FBB Compassionate Meme Contest

Posted by Sarah Chandonnet on February 18, 2013

Know a quote that captures compassionate humanism at its best? Got the perfect image to put behind it? Time to create a meme!

Foundation Beyond Belief is now accepting submissions for the FBB Compassionate Humanism Meme Contest. We need your …

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2/23: Cards & Scarves Rescheduled

Posted by Sarah Chandonnet on February 17, 2013
When: 12:00-3:00pm, Saturday, February 23
Where: 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (Take Red Line to Harvard) 

In celebration of UN Interfaith Harmony Week, join us for a service project making cards and scarves for the homeless in Boston! …

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“I’m a What?” Eliciting Latent Humanism

Posted by Andy Norman on February 13, 2013

This post was originally published in Humanist Network News, an American Humanist Association publication, as part of an ongoing column by Carnegie Melon University professor Andy Norman (see bio below).

I was invited recently to address a group of college students who …

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