This year, the 40 Days for Life Campaign runs from Wednesday, Sept. 23rd to November 1st.
If you’re interested in helping out at the Red River Women’s clinic by escorting people into and out of the clinic, there’s a PDF attached with a bunch more information.
I don’t see this as a pro-life/pro-choice issue, but rather as a chance to help stop people from being harassed during a vulnerable time.
All that it involves is going to a brief training session beforehand and then showing up on however many Wednesdays you want, wearing a sweet vest, and walking people through the protesters.
This week, CFA is having its first event of the semester—eating food.
It’s at 8 PM on Thursday and in the Union (room TBD). It’s a welcome back event for members and a welcoming event for new members. We can talk about our plans for the semester and get feedback about what people want to see happen whilst hanging out and stuffing food into our faces.
There will be pizza and other snacks but feel free to bring food, if you want.
So come, bring friends, eat food, meet people, and hang out.
The best way to stay up to date on upcoming events is to join the Facebook group or check back here often.
We’ll be meeting weekly starting on Thursday, September 3rd (time, place TBD). The typical format for these meetings is either a 30-60 minute talk followed by time for discussion, a movie night, or some kind of social gathering. If you’re interested in presenting at a meeting, or have a suggestion for someone that you think would be interested, please let me know (isaakad@mnstate.edu).
To be clear, everyone is welcome. There’s not, in any sense, a particular worldview required to come to CFA events—and bring friends!
With the end of the Spring semester, the Campus Freethought Alliance held its annual officer elections. The results are in, and we welcome Adam Isaak as president, Danielle Jones as vice-president, Susan Bury as secretary, and Tracie Kennedy as treasurer. Congratulations to the MSUM CFA’s newly-elected leaders!
For its final meeting of the semester, the MSUM Campus Freethought Alliance will be holding general elections for officers this Thursday, April 30, in CMU Room 218. The positions of chair, vice-chair, secretary and treasurer are all open for election. We will also spend some time discussing the CFA’s constitution, as well as a general plan for next semester.
Any MSUM student who is interested in a leadership position in the CFA is welcome to attend the meeting. See you there!
This Thursday, April 23rd, the CFA welcomes Dr. Matthew Craig, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at MSUM to give a talk called “Faith: The Common Ground of Atheists and Theists,” in the CMU, room 207.
Does it take as much faith to be an atheist as it does to be a theist? Come, share your views–all are welcome!
Side note: I’d like to especially welcome MSUM’s religious community to our meetings. The whole reason we exist is to have open discussions about important things–not to just agree with each other. So hey, come to a meeting. Bring friends.
This Thursday, April 16th, at 8:00 pm the CFA will meet to discuss Alternative Medicine in the Union, room 227.
Does homeopathic medicine actually do what it claims? Can you be healed by needles, faith, magnets, or crystals? Is reflexology a legitimate practice, or just another branch of pseudoscience?
Whether you go to your reflexologist or homeopathic practitioner weekly, or are convinced of their falsity, come (with friends!) and discuss the topic with us.
This Thursday, March 26th, the CFA welcomes Dr. Lee Garth Vigilant, sociology professor at MSUM, to present “Between God and Durkheim: A Reflexive Homiletic on the Secularization Thesis (or, Why “We” Believe…)“.
Dr. Vigilant provides the following description,
Occidental thinkers, since the dawn of modernity, have predicted the decline and/or disappearance of religious institutions and faith-based practices as an unintended –or deliberate- consequence of the increasing preponderance of scientific rationality: the secularization thesis. This discourse will present an apologetic for the persistence and necessity of faith, and why the narrowly Eurocentric secularization thesis belongs in the dust-bin of failed treatises.
This Thursday, March 5th, CFA welcomes Debbie Goddard, Center for Inquiry Field Organizer, to give a lecture entitled “My Thoughts Are Free: Center for Inquiry and the Freethought Movement.”
Debbie Goddard is a field organizer at the Center for Inquiry. Before working for CFI, she participated in local freethought groups in the greater Philadelphia region and helped organize and support campus groups nationally as a volunteer. She has also been involved with progressive issues and activism.
The talk starts at 7:00 pm and will be in the MSUM Comstock Memorial Union room 207.
Center for Inquiry: It’s Time For Science and Reason:
