Community of Reason

A Center for Free Thought
http://www.communityofreason.net

We meet in
Room 301, Haag Hall, University of Missouri, Kansas City
(Park in the Rockhill Parking Structure, 4^th Level, SW corner of Rockhill Road and 52^nd Street).

Sunday Events for October 2007

All events begin at 1:00 p.m.

Oct 7^th    "Are Good Works Possible Without Religion?"

Lynne Schultz, chair and co-founder of EARTHWARD
Lynne Schultz will discuss her atheist-run charity, EARTHWARD, and its efforts to help an African family fleeing religiously motivated violence. The family fled Uganda to relocate in Kenya to protect the five children from the Lord‘s Resistance Army, an Old Testament-based terrorist group known for kidnapping and forced conscription.

Oct 14^th    "Discovering the Real America"

Lewis Diuguid, author and vice-president of community resources at the Kansas City Star
Many of today’s world problems extract from abusive, insensitive reactions of one group of people against another. Lewis’ latest new book, Discovering the Real America, traces the roots and attempts to set a new course to correct pathways.

Oct 21^th    "Quantum Biology - The New (Age) Synthesis"

Michael Ferrari, Asst. Professor, School of Biological Sciences, UMKC.
Biology and Medicine have rested on Newtonian mechanical models for several centuries. In the last 100 years, a major paradigm shift has occurred in physics, altering our view of the universe. The life sciences have been slow to embrace this “new” physics.

Oct 28^th    "A Report on the Springfield, MO Symposium: the Role of Religion in Public Schools"

Kenneth S. Schmitz, professor of chemistry at UMKC
Dr. Schmitz will report on Missouri State University’s third annual conference of the Academia for Educational Studies. Schmitz will summarize remarks made by T. Jeremy Gunn, ACLU director of the program on freedom of religion and belief in Washington, D.C.; Dan Mach, ACLU senior litigator of religious issues in D.C.; Nell Nodding of Stanford University and author of Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief and The Challenge to Care in Schools; and others.

WEEKEND POTLUCKS AND RESTAURANT HOPPING - Call for time and location