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  • Pink Crime: Valena Beety

    Webinar

    Join us on October 2 at noon/PT as we welcome special guest Valena Beety to discuss her new book Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity.

  • Citizens’ Impeachment: Keira Havens

    Webinar

    Join us on September 25 at noon as we welcome Keira Havens of Citizens' Impeachment. 

    Click here to register for this virtual presentation.

    Citizens’ Impeachment is a nonpartisan movement powered by everyday Americans with a unifying mission: to uphold the Constitution of the United States and impeach, convict, and remove officials who violate their oath of office.

    Citizens’ Impeachment was co-founded by a former senate staffer who worked inside the legislative branch during both impeachments, and Keira Havens, a United States Air Force veteran, a former scientist, and a longtime political activist.

  • Secular AZ at Prescott Hope Fest

    On September 19, Secular AZ will table at Prescott Hope Fest. Join us to stand up for church:state separation. 

  • Original Sin: Kathryn Paige Harden

    Webinar

    Join us on September 18 at noon as we welcome Kathryn Paige Harden, PhD, to discuss her new book Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness.

    Watch here: https://youtu.be/KsGe6u5ni_Y

    In Original Sin, acclaimed psychologist Kathryn Paige Harden explores how genetics complicates traditional concepts of blame, punishment, and moral responsibility. Integrating cutting-edge DNA research with personal insights, Harden examines the tension between biological constraints and human agency through the lenses of addiction, violence, and antisocial behavior. Rather than using science to absolve wrongdoers or make guilt obsolete, she challenges readers to reckon differently with fairness. Ultimately, this revelatory inquiry urges us to move past ancient nature-versus-nurture debates to imagine a more humane, realistic vision of accountability for ourselves and society.

    Kathryn Paige Harden is a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she leads the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab. Harden received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia and completed her clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She has been honored by the American Psychological Association for her distinguished scientific contributions to the study of genetics and human individual differences.

  • Democratic Women of the Prescott Area Luncheon with Jeanne Casteen

    989 wineglass drive prescott 989 Wineglass Drive, Prescott, AZ, United States

    Join us on September 11 at noon as we welcome attorney and activist Julie Gunnigle and Jeanne Casteen, Secular AZ Executive Director, to discuss Arizona's upcoming elections, politics, the legislature, and more. 

  • Abortion Rights and Christian Nationalism: Whose Beliefs? Whose Laws?

    Webinar

    Abortion rights remain one of the clearest places where questions of bodily autonomy, religious freedom, and church–state separation collide. This webinar will examine the current state of abortion rights in Pennsylvania and across the country, including recent court decisions and continuing battles over medication abortion, while exploring how attacks on reproductive freedom are intertwined with broader Christian Nationalist efforts to impose one set of religious beliefs through public policy. This program is being hosted by our Jewish Women and Religious Freedom in Pittsburgh project, sponsored by the Jewish Women's Foundation of Greater Pittsburgh. It is open to people across the country

  • Rep Jared Huffman and Jeanne Casteen in Conversation: No Prophets

    Changing Hands Books Tempe 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ, United States

    Join Rep. Jared Huffman, co-founder of the Freethought Caucus, and Secular AZ Executive Director Jeanne Casteen for a discussion and signing of his book, No Prophets, a behind-the-scenes look at the shocking extent of Christian nationalism’s reach in our government—and the fight to defend church-state separation. They'll be at Changing Hands Books in Tempe on September 8 at 7p! a national wake-up call about Christian nationalism. Instead, most Americans and politicians looked away.

    No Prophets argues that Christian nationalism is now America’s most dangerous political movement. Huffman pulls back the curtain on religious extremists behind the insurrection who have only grown more powerful with Trump’s return. Openly vowing to destroy church-state separation and democracy as we know it, they now work inside the highest levels of government to drive domestic and foreign policy, reshape federal agencies, undermine science and education, and tilt elections. The endgame: an authoritarian theocracy that imposes their religious beliefs by force of law.

  • Blazing Eye Sees All: Leah Sottile

    Webinar

    Join us on September 4 at noon/PT as we welcome Leah Sottile to discuss her new book Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age.

    Click here to watch: https://youtu.be/3GqY5iYoe8M

    In Blazing Eye Sees All, journalist Leah Sottile investigates the modern New Age movement, examining why women become devoted to self-professed gurus like Love Has Won's "Mother God." While tarot and crystals dominate social media, Sottile reveals that this seemingly gentle world of "love and light" has long been built on conspiracies, antisemitism, nationalism, and anti-science views. Driven by modern anxieties like climate change and pandemics, people seek relief in these spiritualities. Ultimately, Sottile separates genuine healing from dangerous "snake oil," helping readers find true clarity amid the rise of New Age influence.

    Leah Sottile is the author of When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow Chad Daybell, and A Story of Murder, Wild Faith and End Times. Her investigations, features and essays have been published by The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic and High Country News. She is the host of the investigative podcasts Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine and Bundyville. She lives in Oregon.

  • Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The Edge of Space-Time

    Webinar

    Join us on August 28 at noon (PT) as we welcome special guest Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD to discuss her latest book "The Edge of Space Time: Particles, Poetry and the Cosmic Dream Boogie."

    Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an associate professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. She conducts award-winning theoretical physics research on dark matter, the early universe, and neutron stars, while also researching Black feminist science studies. Her first book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, won the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology, the 2022 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, and a 2022 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. A columnist for New Scientist and Physics World, she is originally from East L.A. and now divides her time between the New Hampshire Seacoast and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • The Conspiracists: Noelle Cook and Liz Smith

    Webinar

    Join us on August 21 at noon/PT as we welcome director Liz Smith and producer Noelle Cook to discuss their new documentary film, The Conspiracists, in which a January 6th insurrectionist takes a British filmmaker and an American researcher on a road trip and attempts to convert them to her world of conspiracy theories.

    Watch here: https://youtu.be/-3OPJ3P2Chc

    Three women set off on a road trip across America. One of them is a MAGA supporter and conspiracy theorist. She has just been sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role in the storming of The US Capitol. They meet other “patriots” along the way and as the journey unfolds she leads her travel companions deeper into her labyrinth of conspiracy, determined to open their eyes to what she sees as the real truth. By the trip’s end will she have converted them to her “5D world”?

  • Mariah Blake: They Poisoned the World

    Webinar

    Join us on August 14 at noon (PT) as we welcome special guest Mariah Blake to discuss her latest book They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals. 

    Watch here: https://youtu.be/QgLvg7SIVmc?si=QBF5yXYyA6pnaWzC

    In They Poisoned the World, investigative journalist Mariah Blake exposes a decades-long cover-up of toxic "forever chemicals" contaminating the drinking water of 100 million Americans. Tracing the pollution from the Manhattan Project to corporate labs, Blake reveals that manufacturers and the government knew these chemicals caused cancer and birth defects, yet lax regulations allowed the public to become unwitting test subjects. Based on extensive research, the book chronicles how a small New York village discovered the contamination in 2014, fought chemical giants, and ignited a powerful, historic grassroots environmental movement to protect public health.

    Mariah Blake is an award-winning investigative journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The New Republic, and other publications. She was a Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism at Harvard University. Her book, They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals, was named on of the best nonfiction books of 2025 by The Washington Post and Scientific American.

  • Dr. Maya Kornberg: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress

    Webinar

    Join us on August 7 at noon/PT as we welcome special guest Maya Kornberg, PhD, to discuss her new book Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress.

    Watch here: https://youtu.be/A821KCCYR5k

    Despite fifty years of idealistic, diverse new lawmakers arriving in Washington, Congress remains paralyzed and inhospitable to change. In Stuck, Maya Kornberg explains that well-intentioned reforms have been thwarted by systemic forces: political violence, skyrocketing campaign costs, constant fundraising, diminished staff, and centralized party leadership