You can watch Elle's talk with Souther California Secular Coalitin here: youtu.be/z8nASohgaVk

An excerpt from our Sunday Assembly "Gaga for Dada" 🚽🚽🚽 We human beings crave community and will invent them if they don't exist. We can still learn some lessons from the motley band that called themselves Dadaists.

An excerpt from our Sunday Assembly "Gaga for Dada" 🚽🚽🚽 We human beings crave community and will invent them if they don't exist. We can still learn some lessons from the motley band that called themselves Dadaists.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. #MotivationMonday #OneStep #StartSomewhere #YouCan #RBG #CampQuest

The Biden administration has proposed a rule that would restore anti-discrimination protections for government contractors' workers. Please take a moment to comment in support! Deadline: December 9th! More info and template here: americanhumanist.org/actionhq/?vvsr…

An excerpt from our Sunday Assembly "Gaga for Dada" 🚽🚽🚽 We human beings crave community and will invent them if they don't exist. We can still learn some lessons from the motley band that called themselves Dadaists.

My hope is to demonstrate that virtually all intelligible action is born, sustained, and/or extinguished within the ongoing process of relationship. From this standpoint there is no isolated self or fully private experience. - Kenneth Gergen

Are you ready for a different kind of summer day camp? One that includes Socrates, unicorns, and humanist values? Sign up to hear more about Camp Quest Pioneer Valley, an inclusive, accepting community: buff.ly/3GaOg6m #CampQuest #SummerCamp #Values #Empathy #Humanism

“The din of conversation is as much meaning as we shall ever have.” - Terry Eagleton Terry Eagleton

I write this manifesto to show people can perform contrary actions together while taking one fresh gulp of air; I am against action; for continuous contradiction, for affirmation too, I am neither for nor against and I do not explain because I hate common sense. -Tristan Tzara

There is no ultimate truth . . . Does anyone think that, by a minute refinement of logic, they have demonstrated the truth and established the correctness of their opinions? - Tristan Tzara

A line of poetry is a chance to get rid of all the filth that clings to this accursed language, as if put there by stockbrokers' hands, hands worn smooth by coins. I want the word where it ends and begins. Dada is the heart of words. - Hugo Ball

Brighter days are coming! Happy Solstice! #MySecularHoliday #Solstice #AxialTilt #ReasonForTheSeason #CelebrateYourWay #BeWhoYouAre #CampQuest

An excerpt from "Movable Feasts and Usable Pasts" with Rev. Dr. David Breeden. Can we hold history? While much of history is documented, how those documents are interpreted changes over time. As we search for usable pasts to inform our own time, history presents a movable feast.

The free-thinking artistic act is anathema to the fascist mind. The din of human conversation—the gatherings of people to talk and laugh and create—is anathema to the fascist mind.

U.S. Christians are much more likely than religiously unaffiliated Americans to say that most things in society can be clearly divided into good and evil. 64% of White evangelical Protestants say this, as do 57% of Black Protestants. pewrsr.ch/32qR2FY

OTD in 1888, Van Gogh cut off his own ear. (A century later, Joni Mitchell referenced it in a self-portrait that became the cover of her album “Turbulent Indigo.”) His best friend Gauguin's stirring first-hand account of what actually happened that night: themarginalian.org/2017/08/23/gau…

Reason and science can save us from COVID. But art and the stories from the amazingly rich din of human civilizations save us from myopia of science and reason.

Thank you to all key workers ❤️

Long ago, back in the days when the world was hurtling toward yet another world war, John Dietrich said, “the great word of humanism is ‘us.’