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Cancel My Subscription to the Resurrection

By Eric Jayne One week after 2013 arrived, my dad called and said he began receiving hospice care for congestive heart failure. I went to Iowa to visit him two days later. When I got there he was lying...

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News and Notes

By George Kane I was pleased to learn before this election that my polling place had moved from Como Park Lutheran Church to the North Dale Recreation Center, even though it is a couple of miles from...

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Unitarian Universalists?

By August Berkshire In the early days of the atheist/humanist movement, we looked to the Unitarian Universalist (UU) churches for some of our new members. This made sense because, until our groups...

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February Cable Report: Atheist Volunteerism

By Steve Petersen Minnesota Atheists President Eric Jayne discussed the importance of giving time, energy, and money by volunteering for important causes. Eric first cited reasons why humans, whether...

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Atheist Organizing and Activism in Small-Town Minnesota

Our guest speaker for March will be Ken Kressin. Ken organized the Cannon Falls Freethinkers group about three years ago – shortly after an episode at his daughter’s high school set him on an...

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MN Atheists Testitfies in Favor of Marriage Equality

Below is the testimony by August Berkshire, representing Minnesota Atheists, at a Minnesota House Civil Law Committee hearing, in favor of the bill HF 1054, changing state law to allow for marriage...

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President's Column: Proclamation from the New President

By Eric Jayne Although I have been regularly contributing to the Minnesota Atheist newsletter, this is my very first “President’s Column” since being elected president of the Minnesota Atheists last...

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News and Notes

By George Kane I have participated in two debates at the Argument of the Month Club. This is a Catholic men’s club that meets in the basement of St. Augustine Church in South St. Paul. Looking through...

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April Meeting - "Have We Turned a Corner?"

Have we turned a corner? Progress on LGBT issues in Minnesota and beyond The modern phase of the LGBT equality movement is generally about forty years old, but it seems as if in recent years, progress...

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Celebrate the Day of Reason: One Nation Indivisible

On Thursday, May 2, 2013, from noon to 1:00 pm, Minnesota Atheists and other organizations that recognize the need for separation of state and church will be observing the Day of Reason at the...

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News and Notes

By George Kane Republicans took a thumping in the November elections, but they behave as if voters gave them a mandate to advance conservative Christian goals. House Resolutions 940 and 973 would both...

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President's Column: One Nation Indivisible

By Eric Jayne Twenty-seven years after the last shot was fired in the Civil War, a socialist, Baptist minister named Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance as a visionary celebration of a...

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President's Column: One Nation Indivisible

By Eric Jayne Twenty-seven years after the last shot was fired in the Civil War, a socialist, Baptist minister named Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance as a visionary celebration of a...

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May Meeting: A Story about a Rebel

Our speaker for the May meeting will be Dan Allosso. Dan is a freethought history writer who has recently come out with the book An Infidel Body-Snatcher and the Fruits of His Philosophy. This book is...

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Book Review: An Infidel Body Snatcher

By Scott Lohman An Infidel Body-Snatcher and the Fruits of his Philosophy: The Life of Dr. Charles Knowltonby Dan Allosso, 270 pages, CreateSpace Independent Publishing The history of Freethinking...

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News and Notes

By George Kane I have participated in two debates at the Argument of the Month Club. This is a Catholic men’s club that meets in the basement of St. Augustine Church in South St. Paul. Looking through...

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April Meeting - "Have We Turned a Corner?"

Have we turned a corner? Progress on LGBT issues in Minnesota and beyond The modern phase of the LGBT equality movement is generally about forty years old, but it seems as if in recent years, progress...

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Celebrate the Day of Reason: One Nation Indivisible

On Thursday, May 2, 2013, from noon to 1:00 pm, Minnesota Atheists and other organizations that recognize the need for separation of state and church will be observing the Day of Reason at the...

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News and Notes

By George Kane Republicans took a thumping in the November elections, but they behave as if voters gave them a mandate to advance conservative Christian goals. House Resolutions 940 and 973 would both...

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President's Column: One Nation Indivisible

By Eric Jayne Twenty-seven years after the last shot was fired in the Civil War, a socialist, Baptist minister named Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance as a visionary celebration of a...

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