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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 …

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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

  • “Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned. , ”
    by Friedrich Nietzsche
    Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
  • “There's absolutely no justification for preparing to move human civilization off the Earth and to Mars and into space colonies, and in my opinion it is irresponsible to put this specter before us and present it as a reasonable, realistic response to the mess we have created here on Earth. ”
    by Carolyn Porco, planetary scientist
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR9uhc_yQjQ&t=290s
  • “I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.”
    by C. JoyBell C
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