Category: Future

7 a.m., June 28, 2025

This month, the American Humanist Association is holding its 84th Annual Conference, entitled “Humanists Move America”.

The Humanists at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, UUCPA, invite you to a watch party, so we can participate in the conference together.

The conference is in Chicago, but the Humanists at UUCPA have reserved a room with a TV at the church. Unlike the legacy monthly Humanists at UUCPA meeting, this watch party will be in-person only.

Topic: Humanist Conference Watch Party
Format: In-person
Host: Humanists at UUCPA
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Room 10 (the meeting room closest to the parking lot)
505 East Charleston Road
Palo Alto, CA 94306

Sessions
AHACON25 Schedule with links to speaker biographies:
https://www.conference.americanhumanist.org/schedule

7:00am-7:45am
Swipe Left, Swipe Right:
The Future of Mating and Marriage – A Humanist’s Perspective
with Darrel Ray

8:00am-8:45am
Hope or Havoc:
The Future of AI and Human Freedom
with Krystal Jackson

9:00am-9:45am
The Secular Case for Reparations
with Cynthia McDonald

11:00am-10:45am
Fighting Back in the Courts:
How AHA’s Legal Strategy Is Evolving for 2025 and Beyond
with Amitai Heller

12:00pm-12:45pm
From Representation to Power:
How Humanists Can Build a Political Movement
with Wil Jeudy, Sarah Levin, Karina Quintanilla, and Stephanie Vigil

1:00pm-1:45pm
Center for Freethought Equality Annual Meeting
with North Dakota State Senator Ryan Braunberger and former Colorado State House member Stephanie Vigil
Being a member of the humanist and atheist community is no longer an effective opposition issue in today’s politics.

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Attend in Person:

If you can join us, please email vp@humanists.org to help us make sure we have room for you. If you have symptoms that may be COVID, kindly attend on Zoom.

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11 a.m., June 29, 2025

Join Santa Clara University professor Elizabeth Drescher in person OR online.

Recent demographic data has suggested a leveling off or perhaps even a turn-back of the 30-year trend of increasing religious unaffiliated in the United States. Are we in the midst of a new “religious revival” in America? A deeper dive into the data raises challenging questions for the religious and nonreligious alike about the changing role of religion and nonreligion in American life.

Professor Drescher teaches religious studies at Santa Clara University, where she also directs the Living Religion Collaborative, a place-based center for student and faculty engagement with local religious and nonreligious communities. A scholar of non/religion as it is experienced by ordinary people in everyday life, she is the author of Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of American Nones (Oxford 2016) and numerous other books and articles on lived religious and nonreligious experience.

The Atheist Community of San Jose joins with the Humanist Community to co-host this event.

06/29/2025 Is the None-ing of America Over? – Elizabeth Drescher from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

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Attend in Person:
On the first and fourth Sunday of the month, like this Sunday, attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at the Neutra House Conference Center, 181 Hillview Ave, Los Altos, CA 94022. Lunch will be served after the forum. We request a $10 donation.

If you can join us in person, please email vp@humanists.org to help us make sure we have room for you. If you have symptoms that may be COVID, kindly attend on Zoom.

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Also, we will continue to present our forums on Zoom. To join and be able to ask questions and make comments, click here.
No password is needed — our host will admit you from the waiting room. Joining the meeting via the link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer (if it’s not already installed), and then take you to the meeting. You can also install the Zoom app on your computer or smartphone, and then enter:
Meeting ID: 816 5389 0712
Passcode: 250634

Join the meeting by phone: +1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)

Find an international number to call: https://zoom.us/u/afYkAuvE6

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