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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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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 Request for Donations

  DONATIONS REQUESTED FOR HUMANLIGHT SILENT AUCTION: We’ll once again be holding a silent auction fundraiser as part of our 2025 HumanLight Celebration, using the online auction website, 32auctions.com. Now …

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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 October 26 Program with Avram Alpert: What Could a Good-Enough Future Look Like?

  Our speaker this month is Avram Alpert, author of The Good-Enough Life.  In 2022, Avram Alpert released his book, The Good-Enough Life, in which he explores how an acceptance …

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NJHN End of Summer Bash on September 21

We invite you to join us for our End of Summer Bash on Sunday, September 21, 1-5 PM, at the Pine Grove Pavilion at Colonial Park, Mettlers Road, Somerset. We’re …

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NJHN Book Club selections for September-December 2025

NJHN’s Book Club has chosen the next four books we’ll read and discuss for September-December 2025: Sep 25: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson ((2017, 223 pages, …

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Freethought Quotes

  • “The value of life lies not in its length, but in the use we make of it.”
    by Michel de Montaigne
  • “When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don\'t think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”
    by Ann Druyan
  • “The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using the word 'trinity.' The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or Second Coming, or Original Sin. If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence, Supernatural, Transcendence, Afterlife, Deity, Divinity, Theology, Monotheism, Missionary, Immaculate Conception, Christmas, Christianity, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Methodist, Catholic, Pope, Cardinal, Catechism, Purgatory, Penance, Transubstantiation, Excommunication, Dogma, Chastity, Unpardonable Sin, Infallibility, Inerrancy, Incarnation, Epiphany, Sermon, Eucharist, the Lord\'s Prayer, Good Friday, Doubting Thomas, Advent, Sunday School, Dead Sea, Golden Rule, Moral, Morality, Ethics, Patriotism, Education, Atheism, Apostasy, Conservative (Liberal is in), Capital Punishment, Monogamy, Abortion, Pornography, Homosexual, Lesbian, Fairness, Logic, Republic, Democracy, Capitalism, Funeral, Decalogue, or Bible.”
    by Dan Barker
    Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
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