Saturday, June 12, 2010

Next city-wide main gathering

Our gathering on June 19 will be a celebration of World Humanist Day. Bring your favorite cookies or finger foods for everyone to enjoy.

There will be readings, games, prizes, and most importantly good food and conversation.

Please join us at Bayland Community Center, 6400 Bissonnet from 1:00 to 3:00. We look forward to seeing you there!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Religion Ethics and Society Club

Schedule for 2010

Date

Topic/Theme/Book Title

Author

Presenter

January 30, 2010

“Jesus Interrupted “

Bart Ehrman

D. Troiano

February 20, 2010

“Free Will … Personal Responsibility”

Joseph Rychlak

Barbara Greer

March 27, 2010

“Ethics of Robber Barons “

Jim Knierien

April 24, 2010

“History of Philosophy ..."

Daniel Robinson

Louis Daily

May 22, 2010

“The Alphabet and the Garden”

Leonard Schlain

Louis Daily

June 26, 2010

"Lost in the Sacred"

Dan Diner

Ed Barr

July 24, 2010

“Women in Humanism”

From ‘Doubt’”

Michael Jennifer Hecht

Sara Simon

August 28, 2010

September 25, 2010

Dmitri Shostakovitch-Russian Moralist”

Music of Shostakovitch

Tony Settles

October 23, 2010

November 27, 2010

December 2010

SOLSTICE PARTY

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Tentative Schedule for 2007/2008

Tentative Schedule for 2007/2008

Date Topic/Theme/Book Author Reviewer
3/24/07 Introduction
to Islam
Tom
Brucia
4/28/07
5/26/07 Perception
of Christianity in the 1st Century by Hellenes
Jerry
Harris
6/23/07 Evolutionary
Psychology of Religion
Steven
Pinker
Art
Fay
7/28/07 Humanist
Ethics
Robert
Finch
8/25/07 The
Varieties of Religious Experience
William
James
Tom
Brucia
9/22/07 Dialectics
of Secularization
J.
Habermas & J. Ratzinger
Ron
Titus
10/27/07

Porphyry
and Julian the Apostate vs Christians and neo-Platonism


Numenius
and Justin Martyr : how Christianity Adopted Greek Metaphysics

based
on a research paper by Marian Hillar
Jerry
Harris & Marian Hillar
11/24/07 Psychology
of Atheism according to the third essay in Geneology of Morals
Frederick
Nietzsche
Marian
Hillar
12/15/07 <Winter
Solstice Celebration
>
1/26/08 Purpose
for Your Life
Abraham
Maslow & Lyle Simpson
Sara
Simon
2/23/08 The
Truth Behind the New Atheism
David
Marshall
Carine
Grosjean
3/22/08 The
Contribution of Kurt Vonnegut to Humanism
Kurt
Vonnegut
Tom
Brucia
4/26/08 Fighting
Words: The Origins of Religious Violence
Hector
Avalos
Jim
Knierien
5/24/08 Introduction
to Islam
Sid
George
6/28/08 Play:
Prometheus Bound
Sid
George
Sid
George
7/26/08 The
Enlightenment & the American Constitution
Historical
Documents
Ariel
Thomann
8/23/08 The
Black Swan
Nassim
Talib
Tom
Brucia
9/27/08 Ancient
Mystery Religions as the Source of Christianity
  Sid
George
10/25/08 Judaism
and Herod the Great
  Sid
George
11/22/08 The
Question of the Soul
Francis
Crick
Rusty
Lyon
12/27/08 SOLSTICE
PARTY
   
1/24/09 Ethics
Philosophy of Albert Camus, Maximilian Kolbe, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  Tom
Brucia