A welcome-back message from Humanist chaplain Greg Epstein:

I'm delighted to announce that on Tuesday night September 7, HCH will publicly open the doors to the first-ever Humanist student and community center on any campus in the US! This Center is the first-ever on any campus in the US! We are in a lovely 1000-square foot storefront office at 19 Arrow Street. Hear me talk about it on NPR's Radio Boston here: http://www.wbur.org/2010/08/31/greg-epstein

You are cordially invited to our first Open House (office-warming party) on Tuesday night Sept. 7, 5:30-7:30pm. Beyond that we're planning programs and events to interest a wide variety of participants. See our website for initial details.

Much more info on our biggest semester yet will come soon in HCH’s fall e-newsletter, and look out for our new website, coming in a few weeks. 

Support for our lease of this new space comes primarily through a generous donation from an individual with no particular connection to Harvard but who became aware of our organization by way of my book, Good without God. This individual decided that HCH is uniquely positioned to help pioneer a new model of Humanist community and educational work, and to develop Humanist leaders.

So please SAVE THE DATE for our first public event: an Open House(warming party) Tuesday night Sept. 7, 5:30-7:30pm. That night, and in upcoming email/ website/Facebook/Twitter updates, we’ll give full details on the wide range of programs to take place in our new home! But for now, programs will include: an open house on the first Tuesday evening of each month; our Harvard Humanist Graduate Community meetings every Thursday; the Harvard Secular Society (Harvard College) on Friday afternoons, our biweekly Saturday Humanist Contemplative (meditation) group; and, biweekly on Sundays, our brand new Humanist Forum, a community-oriented program that will involve small group discussion, socializing and networking, food and drinks, and some of the leading thinkers and most engaging topics in the Humanist movement today! (I’ll be leading the first Forum, Sun. Sept. 12, from 1:30-3:30pm. The next one will feature well-known blogger the “Friendly Atheist” Hemant Mehta on Sept. 19, and then on Oct. 3 we’ll feature Sean Faircloth, Director of the Secular Coalition for America.)

Whether you’re in Cambridge or not, and whether you’re the type that is interested in attending Humanist community gatherings once a week or once a year (we’ve got something for all types!) I hope you will follow our efforts this fall with interest and support.

We hope to see you soon, and check back here for more, later this week!