Welcome to Our Website

The Center for Inquiry Washington D.C. offers an opportunity to put your principles into practice by joining other rationalists to work for positive change in society. In addition, the D.C. Center sponsors social events for freethinkers as well as intellectual programming, and assists with campus outreach.

CFI provides an ethical alternative to religious and paranormal worldviews. In this time of rising religiosity, anti-intellectualism and political turmoil on ethical issues, it is critical that rationalists and freethinkers join together to protect civil liberties, defend reason, and work toward increasing scientific literacy.

For more information about CFI Washington D.C., please contact CFI DC Executive Director Melody Hensley at mhensley@centerforinquiry.net or (202) 546-2332.

If you have questions or would like to learn more about CFI's lobbying work in Washington, please contact our Director of Public Policy Toni Van Pelt at tvanpelt@centerforinquiry.net or 202-546-2330.

clock

The Center for Inquiry needs your help to become a sustainable long-term presence in Washington, D.C., as together we aim to reach 300 Friends by 2011!

As a Friend of the Center, you can play a key role in making CFI more effective by supporting its mission and participating in its activities. Annual dues are very modest: $60 for individuals, $80 for families, and $20 for students.

Even if you are an infrequent attendee at our events, your support enables us to provide great benefits to a growing constituency across the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Featured News

CFI calls on City Council to maintain its commitment to marriage equality

District's Neediest Threatened by Archdiocese's Unwillingness to Recognize Equal Rights

Washington, D.C. (November 13, 2009)-The Center for Inquiry D.C. (CFI-D.C.) calls on the D.C. City Council to maintain current language in the proposed same-sex marriage legislation that is scheduled for vote by the full Council in December. The D.C. City Council is under pressure from… Full Entry »

Featured Events

UMBC Secular Student Alliance - Paul Fidalgo: Instigators, Policers, and the New Atheists

Mar 25
Join the UMBC Secular Student Alliance and the Center for Inquiry DC for a lecture by Paul Fidalgo, as he discusses Instigators, Policers, and the New Atheists: The Real Divides within the Activist Atheist Community .

Much has been made of late of the so-called "divide" within the atheist community over matters of style, but the real distinction between "atheist camps" is revealed… Full Entry »

Voices of Reason - Gina Welch: In the Land of Believers

Mar 28
Ever since evangelical Christians rose to national prominence, mainstream America has tracked their every move with a nervous eye. But in spite of this vigilance, our understanding hasn’t gone beyond the caricatures. Who are evangelicals, really? What are they like in private, and what do they want? Is it possible that beneath the differences in culture and language, church and party, we might share… Full Entry »

AAH Conference: New Directions for African American Humanists

May 16

Scheduled Speakers:

  • Norm Allen, Executive Director of African Americans for Humanism
  • Johnny Barnes, Executive Director of ACLU National Capital Area
  • Christopher Bell, Author of The Black Clergy's Misguided Worship Leadership
  • Jamila Bey, Journalist
  • Debbie Goddard, CFI On Campus Field Organizer
  • Sikivu… Full Entry »