For the past nine years, the Connecticut Valley Atheists (CVA) have created a display on the public town green in response to other religious holiday displays allowed by the town. Nearby residents had always enjoyed and respected all of the displays until this year when only the atheist display was vandalized. Dennis Paul Himes, Vernon …
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CooRdinator’s CoRner: Interview with Pat McCann
UnitedCoR’s Education Officer and National Coordinator Education Officer and National Coordinator On our way back from an event with Boston Oasis, we stopped in to visit Connecticut CoR for a 2016-planning meeting. Although we’ve had a lot of communication with Connecticut CoR and its coordinator, Pat McCann, this was our first time to meet him …
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A Dialogue For Interfaith Dialogue
by UnitedCoR’s Education Officer and National Coordinator I had the privilege of hearing Gary Alexander speak at this year’s Sacramento Freethought Day leadership event. Gary’s training session was well received, and as it is something new to some nontheistic communities, people were continuing to talk about his session even until the late hours of the …
UnitedCoR Executive Director To Speak at Greater Boston Oasis
MEDIA ADVISORY. Following a successful launch on Sunday, October 18th, 2015, Greater Boston Oasis announces that UnitedCoR’s Executive Director (headquartered in Washington, DC) will be the featured guest speaker this coming Sunday, November 29, 2015. The Greater Boston Oasis has become a destination for nontheistic (atheist, agnostic, skeptic, humanist) people who want to feel a part …
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Freethought: The First Step of a Growing Mind
UnitedCoR’s Executive Director Executive DirectorUnited Coalition of Reason With the phrase, “Freethought is the first step of a growing mind,” UnitedCoR’s Education Officer and National Coordinatorestablished her first meme during her first public address in America at the Sacramento Freethought Day on Sunday, October 11, 2015. On a beautiful morning, the Sunday Assembly—Sacramento gathered …
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Generous to the CoR(e)!
by UnitedCoR’s Executive Director Executive Director—United Coalition of Reason UnitedCoR wishes to acknowledge a generous gift received from Pat McCann—Coordinator of the Connecticut Coalition of Reason. Pat was able to secure a matching gift from his work at Pfizer, thereby increasing the amount UnitedCoR received. Pat McCann is a life-long Atheist and Humanist who …