Posted in Lectures, News on May 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
William Lobdell answers questions from the audience
On Thursday, May 28th, Reed Secular Alliance President, Leslie Zukor, attended a provocative talk at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne. In Losing My Religion, author and former Los Angeles Times religion beat writer, William Lobdell, explains how he lost his faith while covering religion. His story? As a troubled young adult, [...]
Posted in News, Pictures, Service Projects on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Reed Secular Alliance would like to thank the Center For Inquiry (CFI) – Washington, DC chaper, for collecting books for the Freethought Books Project. A particular shout-out goes to Executive Director, Melody Hensley, for her tireless efforts on behalf of freethought.
CFI – DC collected an amazing 70 materials, among which include Imagine [...]
Posted in Lectures, Media, News on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the Reed Secular Alliance, this has been the most active year since 2005-06. And there have been many accomplishments. Firstly, we moved our blog from Blogspot to WordPress, which was a great move. With the new software, we can now see how many people visit the site, have our own customized pages, and carry [...]
Posted in News on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Reed Secular Alliance’s President, Leslie Zukor, will be attending the American Humanist Assocation’s Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Speaker highights at the June 5th-7th conference include Donald Johanson, who discovered our oldest human ancestor, Robert Boston from Americans United, and August Brunsman and Lyz Liddell of the Secular Student Alliance.
“I am really excited to go to [...]
Posted in Prisoner Letters on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Letters from a Barbed Wire Monastery – Actual Conversations
By: “Prison Bob”
I was sitting quietly, politely, and demurely on my bunk the other day when out of nowhere, a Messianic Jew/Seventh Day Adventist/Charismatic whom I psychologically scramble from time to time approached me. “I don’t mean to cause a debate or anything, but why don’t you [...]
Posted in News on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reed Secular Alliance President, Leslie Zukor, will be an intern this summer for the Secular Student Alliance. Zukor, who is a rising Senior Anthropology major, is excited about the opportunity. “I really believe in the SSA’s mission,” she said. “The SSA is the only group solely dedicated to students in the Freethought Movement.”
Posted in Prisoner Letters on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections from a Barbed Wire Monastery
By: “Prison Bob”
Editor’s Note: The following is part two of a feature with an actual freethinking prisoner. “Prison Bob”, which is a pseudonym, is incarcerated in Oklahoma. In this series, he reflects on being an atheist in prison, life behind bars, and his interest in writing fiction. We hope that you’ll [...]
Posted in News, Opinion on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reed Secular Alliance President, Leslie Zukor, wrote her final paper for Language and Politics about the U.N.’s anti-blasphemy legislation. The document can be found here: A Defense of the U.S. Citizen’s Right to Blaspheme.
Zukor contends that blasphemy is hardly hate speech, and that unpopular beliefs ought to be defended under the Constitution. The Reed Secular Alliance hopes you will [...]
Posted in Media, News, Officers on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pictures that Reed Secular Alliance President, Leslie Zukor, took at Kol Shalom’s Passover Seder were featured in the congregation’s May newsletter. Kol Shalom, Portland’s Community for Humanistic Judaism, hosted a Passover Seder without the God element.
About half the pictures in the Passover spread were taken by Zukor, and the other half were taken by the congregation’s [...]
