The SSA only exists because of your support. Please donate today. Secular shorts: The SSA has endorsed the Rally for Reason, and Hemant Mehta will be speaking there. It’s a protest on the opening day of the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Read media coverage here and here. A smattering of blog coverage of the New Humanism conference:
The HNN Podcast this month features a great interview with Salman Rushdie! Check it out here. Contact us! Call us toll free at 1-877-842-9474. You can also email us at ssa@secularstudents.org. We are always happy to hear from you and answer any questions or concerns! What do you think? This is your eNewsletter and we are always updating and changing to fit your needs, so please let us know what you think of our new format! Email enews@secularstudents.org with any suggestions, ideas, or comments. eMpirical Team
Editor-in-Chief:
Elizabeth R.A. Liddell
Editors: Alison Bates, August E. Brunsman IV, Nic Hall, Hemant Mehta, Jessica Sharon
| Introduction
We’ve been to the Secular Student Alliance/New Humanism Conference, we're back, and we’ve been busy! In this issue of the SSA eMpirical, you’ll find coverage from the New Humanism Conference, in addition to news and tools that you can use to improve your campus group and grow.
Of course, there was just too much material from the New Humanism Conference to cram into one issue (after all, it was a three-day event!), so watch for more coming in the next few issues.
If you’re newer to the secular movement, you might be wondering "What’s a Humanism conference actually about?" eMpirical Editor in Chief Lyz Liddell was wondering what she was getting herself into when she flew out to the New Humanism Conference at Harvard, and now she has a few answers.
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On Friday evening, guests attended the first event of the New Humanism Conference. After a fabulous dessert gathering, Salman Rushdie would be given "The First Annual Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism." Hemant Mehta shares his view of the events.
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SSA Board Member Andy Buttler writes about the New Humanism Conference’s Saturday panel, entitled "Toward an Abrahamic Humanism?" The panel spotlighted the three major Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) and their compatibility with humanism.
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While at the New Humanism conference, eMpirical Editor-in-Chief Lyz Liddell spent most of her free time wandering around talking to students who were there. The idea was to get a feel for what it’s like to be at the conference from a student’s point of view. So, now that you've read what a humanism conference is all about, you can find out what it’s like to be there!
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Elizabeth R.A. Liddell, known by pretty much everyone as Lyz, has been editor-in-chief of the SSA eMpirical since July 2006. It’s rare for her to make an appearance as a writer in the eMpirical, as she prefers to keep her presence quietly within the realms of punctuation, ghostwriting and html code.
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What are your plans for the summer? Looking forward to camping or traveling overseas? Planning some fun at the beach or the pool? Going to veg out with some DVDs and video games, or maybe catch up on all that fun reading that got put aside in favor of school reading? Now, you can do all this and more, and support the SSA while you do it! It’s easy, it’s what you’ve already been planning to do, and – best of all – it’s free!
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Did you know that the SSA website has a set of discussion forums? You might not have, but SSA Board Member Becky Robinson shows us all how great a resource they can be.
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At our 2007 Campus Activist Training, we had leaders from the Campus Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists present on the tremendous success they have had using Facebook as a recruitment tool for their group.
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Many religious groups celebrate May 3 as the National Day of Prayer. Atheists, humanists and freethinkers celebrate the same day as the National Day of Reason. Margaret Chinn is the chair of Students for Freethought at The Ohio State University, and writes about her group’s busy day!
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In March, our own SSA Board President and Friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta was filmed on a Christian TV talk show in Dallas, TX. LIFE Today took two episodes to cover Hemant and the "buyer" for his soul, Jim Henderson. Here, Hemant writes about the filming and points us toward the episodes.
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