Reflections from a Barbed Wire Monastery By: Prison Bob Editor’s Note: In the interest of of accurately portraying life in America’s sectarian prisons, the Reed Secular Alliance is starting an ongoing feature with “Prison Bob”, an atheist inmate, who is incarcerated in Oklahoma. Note that all the opinions expressed herein are uncensored and are the views of [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Prisoner Letter Feature, Part One
Posted in Prisoner Letters on April 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Bill Nye the Science Guy at Reed
Posted in Lectures, News, Pictures on April 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On Tuesday, April 14th, Bill Nye the Science Guy made an appearance at Reed College. Although the event was not sponsored by the Reed Secular Alliance, RSA member Matt Steele had the honor of introducing Nye. Even though he admitted that he was nervous, Steele did an excellent job of welcoming Bill Nye to Reed College. The [...]
Religion Without God
Posted in News, Pictures on April 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Kol Shalom Embraces Jewish Heritage without Theology On Saturday evening, over a hundred people celebrated the Jewish holiday of Passover in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Kol Shalom, Humanistic Jewish Congregation of Portland, put on the event – and the majority of those who attended considered themselves to be Jewish. Reed Secular Alliance President, Leslie Zukor, was [...]
RSA President to Attend Humanist Seder
Posted in News on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Reed Secular Alliance is pleased to announce that President Leslie Zukor will be attending a Humanistic Jewish Passover Seder on Saturday, April 11th, 2009. The event, which is sponsored by Kol Shalom, Humanist Jewish Congregation of Portland, will draw secular Jews from all over the Portland metropolitan area. Leslie, who was born into a Reform [...]
What Your Pastor Won’t Tell You…
Posted in Lectures, News on April 1, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Abusive Reform Schools Have Received Faith-Based Funding While the crowd may have been small, the message was anything but trivial. On Tuesday evening, the 25 Reedies in attendance witnessed Michele Ulriksen’s sobering presentation. Unlicensed, unregulated religious reform schools, many of which are notorious for abuse, not only exist in the hundreds in the U.S; they have even [...]


