Secular Organizations for Sobriety provides a successful and increasingly popular non-religious alternative to 12-Step and other religion-based or pseudo-scientific recovery programs. SOS credits the individual for achieving and maintaining his or her own sobriety, without reliance on any "Higher Power."

SOS supports healthy skepticism and encourages the use of the scientific method to understand alcoholism, drug addiction, or any other compulsive behavior.

The SOS Tucson Group provides a safe meeting place for recovering addicts of all types, religious or otherwise, located in the southeastern Arizona area.

Our meetings are held every Saturday from 1:30 PM–2:30 PM in the University Medical Center Cafeteria, Dining Room A . For more information, please visit the SOS Tucson website .

Café Inquiry

Learn more about skepticism, critical thinking, and free inquiry at an open discussion group and breakfast hosted by members of the Center for Inquiry of Southern Arizona. Café Inquiry meets before the morning program each month to discuss a variety of topics, including religion, pseudoscience, and conspiracy claims. People who are new to CFI or to skepticism in general are especially encouraged to attend.

This month's discussion is an open forum (any relevant topic is open for discussion), moderated by Gil Shapiro.

The University of Arizona's University Medical Center Cafeteria offers good food at reasonable prices!

Location : DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.

Not the Impossible Faith: Why Christianity Didn't Need a Miracle to Succeed

Dr. Richard Carrier will offer an amusing tour of his latest book, Not the Impossible Faith: Why Christianity Didn't Need a Miracle to Succeed . In it, he exposes the lousy scholarship and probable dishonesty of the infamous online Christian apologist J.P. Holding. In the process, you’ll learn all kinds of useful and interesting things about the ancient world and the earliest Christians, and why their religion was a natural success--all contradicting Holding’s book, The Impossible Faith , which argued Christianity was so badly conceived it could never have succeeded unless it had irrefutable proof that Jesus had risen from the dead. This is poppycock. There will also be some sidelines on J.P. Holding and Christian apologetics in general, beyond the treatment of the book.

About the Speaker

Richard Carrier is the renowned author of Sense and Goodness without God , as well as numerous articles online and in print. He received his Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University in 2008, and now specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome. For more about him and his work, visit www.richardcarrier.info .

Location : DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.

DVD Showing: From Jesus to Christ, Part I

From scholarly, insightful, balanced and recently researched points of view, this documentary explores the social and historical Jesus in his Roman-occupied Jewish society, how and why he was killed, and the appearance of a new Jewish sect--later called Christians--who thought their new kingdom was just around the corner.

Next month will feature Part II: the development of the Early Christian Church.

Mind and Brain: A Series of Six Lectures Exploring Our World and Ourselves

Location: Centennial Hall on the campus of the University of Arizona.

"The human brain, and the mind it creates, is enormously complex. Everything we do, think, and feel emerges from billions of nerve cells and their interconnections. Brain development is shaped by evolution and genetics, but is also greatly affected by experience. The mind takes shape through exposure to individuals and cultures, and becomes a constructive and predictive device. It creates inner worlds that allow us to behave in highly adaptive ways, but also to engage in risky behavior and make bad decisions. Six speakers will explore how brains are built, how minds are made, and how cognitive and neural science is changing the way we think about memory, money, morality, mortality and more."

For more information, including parking and the lecture schedule, please visit the University of Arizona College of Science's website announcing the event at http://cos.arizona.edu/mind/ . 

Please note that this is not a CFI-sponsored event, but is posted as a service to our members and visitors.

Movie Matinee: Creation -- The True Story of Darwin

Location : Century 20 El Con (3601 E Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85716, 520-202-3358). We will meet up at the box office prior to the movie start.

RSVP : Bill Holliday

Let's enjoy a movie and a meal. We'll see an early showing for the discount ticket prices and then we'll enjoy each other some more plus stimulating conversation at a nearby restaurant. Feel free to suggest!

Note : this event is co-sponsored by CFI-SAZ Social Activities, Skeptics of Tucson and the Tucson Atheists.

Location: At the home of Joan Cowell, located near Ft. Lowell Rd. and Tucson Blvd.

The goal of the Care SIG is to encourage community within the CFI group and announce life events such as births, weddings, serious illnesses and deaths, and to collect secular resource information to share with the larger CFI group. Energetic Joan is planning another social gathering, so please keep watching as details will be announced at a later date. For more information, please contact Joan Cowell at care@selectric.org .

Secular Organizations for Sobriety provides a successful and increasingly popular non-religious alternative to 12-Step and other religion-based or pseudo-scientific recovery programs. SOS credits the individual for achieving and maintaining his or her own sobriety, without reliance on any "Higher Power."

SOS supports healthy skepticism and encourages the use of the scientific method to understand alcoholism, drug addiction, or any other compulsive behavior.

The SOS Tucson Group provides a safe meeting place for recovering addicts of all types, religious or otherwise, located in the southeastern Arizona area.

Our meetings are held every Saturday from 1:30 PM–2:30 PM in the University Medical Center Cafeteria, Dining Room A . For more information, please visit the SOS Tucson website .

Mind and Brain: A Series of Six Lectures Exploring Our World and Ourselves

Location: Centennial Hall on the campus of the University of Arizona.

"The human brain, and the mind it creates, is enormously complex. Everything we do, think, and feel emerges from billions of nerve cells and their interconnections. Brain development is shaped by evolution and genetics, but is also greatly affected by experience. The mind takes shape through exposure to individuals and cultures, and becomes a constructive and predictive device. It creates inner worlds that allow us to behave in highly adaptive ways, but also to engage in risky behavior and make bad decisions. Six speakers will explore how brains are built, how minds are made, and how cognitive and neural science is changing the way we think about memory, money, morality, mortality and more."

For more information, including parking and the lecture schedule, please visit the University of Arizona College of Science's website announcing the event at http://cos.arizona.edu/mind/ . 

Please note that this is not a CFI-sponsored event, but is posted as a service to our members and visitors.

Secular Organizations for Sobriety provides a successful and increasingly popular non-religious alternative to 12-Step and other religion-based or pseudo-scientific recovery programs. SOS credits the individual for achieving and maintaining his or her own sobriety, without reliance on any "Higher Power."

SOS supports healthy skepticism and encourages the use of the scientific method to understand alcoholism, drug addiction, or any other compulsive behavior.

The SOS Tucson Group provides a safe meeting place for recovering addicts of all types, religious or otherwise, located in the southeastern Arizona area.

Our meetings are held every Saturday from 1:30 PM–2:30 PM in the University Medical Center Cafeteria, Dining Room A . For more information, please visit the SOS Tucson website .