Thursday, October 6, 6:30p: Fixing the Framers’ Failures: The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and America’s New Birth of Freedom – A series of five sessions led by author, speaker and attorney Robert McWhirter
Session four: The 14th Amendment: Defining A New Nation part 2
Join us in-person at the Humanist Center of Greater Phoenix (627 W Rio Salado Pkwy in Mesa) or virtually through Zoom; register here
Friday, October 7, 12p: Seth Cotlar, PhD, Professor of History, author of Tom Paine’s America
Thursday, October 13, 6:30p: Fixing the Framers’ Failures: The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and America’s New Birth of Freedom – A series of five sessions led by author, speaker and attorney Robert McWhirter
Session five: The 15th Amendment: Dropping the Musket to Reach the Ballot and America Becoming Herself
Join us in-person at the Humanist Center of Greater Phoenix (627 W Rio Salado Pkwy in Mesa) or virtually through Zoom; register here
Friday, October 14, 12p: Steven Green, PhD, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Religion, Law and Democracy, on Modern day Comstock Laws
Wednesday, October 19: Accessing Healthcare in Post-Roe Arizona with guests Chris Love and Jess Grennan
Join us for a panel discussion about possible implications of the overturning of Roe with regard to ALL medical/healthcare access, and the potential harm to all patients, not just those seeking reproductive healthcare
Friday, November 18, 12p: Dr. Thomas Lecaque, professor of history at Grand View University and member of Laboratiore d’etudes sur les Monotheismes, on “Holy War and the Far Right: Crusading Rhetoric in Contemporary America”
Saturday, December 10: SECULAR SUMMIT! SAVE THE DATE!
Friday. December 16, 12p: Dr. Mia Bloom, Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute and Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies at Georgia State University and author of Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of Qanon on conspiracy theories in Christian socio-political movements
Please note that this is part of our weekly Friday update series, and registration allows you to attend all Friday presentations
Friday. January 20, 12p: Dr. Morgan Marietta, professor of American politics and political psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and author of “One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy” on a shifting SCOTUS, religious liberty and refusal of service.
Hemant Mehta (a.k.a. The Friendly Atheist) discusses Christian hate preachers and their attacks on LGBTQ, non-theists and women, and the church that turned “Hamilton” into hate speech
Reproductive Justice and Religion: A panel discussion featuring leaders from a range of faith traditions—Judaism, Islam, Catholicism, The Satanic Temple, Protestant —who support reproductive justice
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