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NJHN 2025 Year in Review and 2026 Year of Turmoil and Resolve

  This is NJHN President Lisa Ridge’s talk given at our 2025 HumanLight Celebration on December 14, 2025 Let me start with a spoiler alert: There will be a toast …

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NJHN Awards 2025 Secular Student Scholarship

SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT CONTACT: Lisa Ridge, NJHN President. Phone: 732-425-5233 NJHN Awards 2025 Secular Student Scholarship (12/13/25) – A biochemistry major at Stockton University with a strong interest in gender equality …

Action / Humanism

Send Season’s Greetings to incarcerated humanists with AHA’s help

From the American Humanist Association: The end of the year can be especially difficult for incarcerated people away from family and friends and uncomfortable with their facility’s religious celebrations. Help …

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NJHN 2025 HumanLight Celebration on December 14

  We invite you to join us for our 25th HumanLight Celebration of our community’s positive Humanist values of reason, compassion and hope, and our secular vision for a better future. The Stoney …

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NJHN 2025 Silent Auction NOW LIVE 12/7 at 8:00 am!

  UPDATE: Our 2025 Silent Auction is NOW LIVE on December 7 at 8 AM! It will run during our HumanLight Celebration on December 14, and close that day at 2 PM. …

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NJHN 2025 Holiday Card Exchange

With all of life’s normal distractions, and our tendency to do all things online these days, finding a holiday card in the mailbox can be a great way to brighten …

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NJHN November 23 Program: Carol Simon Levin Portrays Frances Perkins, Mother of the New Deal

  Our program this month is a live portrayal of Frances Perkins, considered the Mother of the New Deal, by Carol Simon Levin, a librarian, historian, author and storyteller. Frances …

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Freethought Quotes

  • “The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.”
    by Paul Kurtz
  • “How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”
    by Carl Sagan
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
  • “Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
    by Jean-Paul Sartre
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