Posts by Maria

Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about my reaction to Molly Worthen's NY Times article, "Wanted: A Theology of Atheism" for the UU Humanist Association's blog. It doesn't address her thesis (that I agree with), that the new "atheist churches" need to be aware of their philosophical heritage. (She calls this theology though she mostly talks about moral systems.) Instead, it points out how that the heritage of Humanism in UU congregations isn’t even mentioned and considers why that is. I would love comments from Concord Area Humanists. Read more about Why Are UU Humanists Overlooked? »

I enjoyed presenting "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Secular Galaxy" the other day! As promised, here is the link to the presentation at Prezi.com: Read more about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Secular Galaxy: Or the Varieties of Non-Religious Experience »

Darwin Day is coming up on February 12, 2014. We haven't decided how we will celebrate this year. Last year, we watched the film "Creation" and the year before we had a birthday party and invited Darwin himself (a.k.a. Alex Walker). Read more about Darwin Day is Coming Up »

Chris Stedman's book "Faitheist" is subtitled "How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious". For the purpose of this post, let's define religion as the belief in God or the supernatural; in other words, theism. (There is a lot of disagreement about defining religion in this way, particularly amongst "religious humanists", but since this is the way Stedman defines it in his book, let's stick with that.) The book is a personal narrative, a memoir by a twenty-something (strange as that may sound), about starting without religion, finding religion and then losing religion. Read more about "Faitheist", by Chris Stedman -- Unitarian Universalism Is an Interfaith Case in Point »