Reed Secular Alliance President, Leslie Zukor, had the pleasure of attending a Humanistic Chanukkah celebration. The event, which was put on by Kol Shalom Community for Humanistic Judaism, was a blend of traditional songs and and contemporary celebrations of our common humanity. “I enjoyed the Chanukkah party,” Zukor said. “It was nice going to a [...]
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A Humanistic Chanukkah
Posted in News on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good Without God Lecture Now Online
Posted in Lectures, Media, News on December 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Reed Secular Alliance is pleased to announce that Greg Epstein’s lecture is now online. The November 19th talk centers around Greg Epstein’s new book, Good Without God: What A Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. Below you can watch the unedited Humanist speech. Unfortunately, the talk cuts out at the tail end of Epstein’s response [...]
Freethought Books Project Mailing Stats
Posted in News, Service Projects on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, November 30th, marked the Freethought Books Project’s second mailing of the semester. The first mailing saw nineteen boxes of books distributed to atheist, humanistic, and freethinking prisoners. While not as large, this effort led to more prisoners getting access to such literature. The following is a statistical run-down of what was donated and to [...]
Book Project Featured on the Friendly Atheist
Posted in Media, News, Service Projects on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday, Hemant Mehta’s The Friendly Atheist blog featured the Freethought Books Project. The November 27th article showcases Michael L’s letter to the Reed Secular Alliance, thanking the group for the books, especially the biography of Robert G. Ingersoll, The Great Agnostic. The Freethought Books Project, started by RSA President, Leslie Zukor, has been around [...]
Standing Room Only for Greg Epstein
Posted in Lectures, Media, News on November 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On his Good Without God book tour, Greg Epstein spoke to a standing room only crowd at Reed College on Thursday night. The event, which was cosponsored by the Reed Secular Alliance, Kol Shalom Humanistic Jews of Portland, and the Portland Coalition of Reason, drew a crowd of 170. All involved were pleased with the [...]
Good Without God: Interview With Greg Epstein
Posted in Lectures, Media, News on November 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Recently, the Reed Secular Alliance had the opportunity to interview Greg Epstein, who will be speaking about his book, Good Without God at Reed on November 19th. The talk will take place this Thursday in the Psychology Auditorium at 7:30 pm. There will be plenty of free food. We hope to see you there. RSA: [...]
Webmaster Speaks Out About Book Project
Posted in News, Opinion, Service Projects on November 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When Freethought Books Project webmaster, Jerry Donnelly, read about a religious prison program in his newspaper, he felt compelled to speak out. “I would like to let readers know there is another way to reach inmates,” he said. Donnelly went on to extol the virtues of the Freethought Books Project, which gives secular, freethinking, and [...]
Freethought Books Project Recruits 500!
Posted in News, Service Projects on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As of this October, the Freethought Books Project has 500 facebook cause members. Only this past semester, fewer than 300 people were active in the Reed Secular Alliance’s charitable endeavors. “Social networking sites like facebook have really allowed this project to grow,” founder Leslie Zukor explains. “When we started this in the fall of 2005, [...]
Zukor’s PZ Myers Photo on Cover of The Humanist
Posted in News on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reed Secular Alliance President, Leslie Zukor’s photo of PZ Myers is on the front cover of this month’s Humanist Magazine. Zukor, who attended the American Humanist Association’s conference in Phoenix, had the opportunity to meet science blogger and outspoken freethinker, PZ Myers. “It was great to introduce myself to Myers,” Zukor said. “And it [...]
Large Turnout for The God Virus
Posted in Lectures, News on October 8, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Roughly 200 people attended Darrel Ray’s The God Virus lecture at Reed College on October 7th. During the event, Dr. Ray made the case that religion is indeed a virus-like phenomenon, as it infects individuals and societies. Drawing heavily from Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and memetic theory, Darrel Ray argued that the idea of religion [...]
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