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The Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles is an educational nonprofit organization that explores and advances critical thinking, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values through education, outreach, and social services.
To learn more about who we are,
and the services we offer our surrounding communities, please visit the
links on the navigation bar of our web site or contact us at
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A Special Winter 2009 Educational Session
Center for Inquiry-L.A. What is the naturalistic alternative to religion? How is scientific inquiry relevant to day-to-day life? and How can secularism be protected and expanded? These questions, representing issues central to CFI’s mission and message, will be thoroughly explored, especially as they relate to today’s culture wars, when the Center for Inquiry brings its Institute to Los Angeles for a special winter January 2009 session. The courses offered January 7-11, 2009 are organized around the theme “Positively Secular,” and will explain skepticism, scientific naturalism, constitutional secularism, and the replacement of religion by humanist ethics. The sessions include day, evening, and weekend modules. Attend all three modules for an integrated and in-depth understanding of the worldview of secular humanism. The Center for Inquiry will award a Certificate of Proficiency in Humanist Studies for attendance of all three modules. To Register, or for more information, please visit: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/education/schedule_instructors/
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feed your brain These events feature
fascinating authors, scholars, and luminaries from many fields that
expand our knowledge and understanding of the world and the people
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Every 4th Wednesday of
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NEW Feed Your Brain Lectures Available on DVD Edward Tabash – “America at the Crossroads: The Threat of the Religious Right to Our Most Basic Freedoms" John Shook – “The God Theory is Dead: How Naturalism Has Driven Theology Over the Edge” Prof. Gayle Greene – “Insomniac’s Slant on Sleep” Sean Carroll – “The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time"
Other DVDs available for purchase in bookstore:
Eddie
Tabash and Dr. Jason
Gastrich - "Clash of the
Titans II: Does God Exist?" PRICES REDUCED! Only $15 for Friends of the Center. ($18 for all others.)
Available by calling CFI-L.A.
at (323)
666-9797, or
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Marriages & Civil Unions As we pass through
life, we celebrate many occasions filled with joy and love,
accomplishment and striving, loss and grief. The message of the
humanist is emphasis on the potential goodness of life -
humanist ceremonies are ingredients to a life well lived.
CFI-L.A. can provide celebrants to officiate at the above
celebrations and can also provide facilities.
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by Eddie Tabash, Honorary Chair of CFI-L.A. |
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Check out our Wish List
at Amazon.com! All donations to CFI are tax-deductible, but donations of items on our Wish List go directly toward improving our Hollywood facility. Help us make CFI-LA a more comfortable and enjoyable place to visit. |
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