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The Center for Inquiry Tampa offers an opportunity to put your principles into practice by joining other rationalists in working for positive change in society. In addition, the Tampa 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.
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Featured News
Center for Inquiry launches Office of Public Policy Blog
CFI's Office of Public Policy recently launched an online blog to inform members about CFI's legislative activities on the Hill. The OPP blog will include press releases, OPP updates, and action items which will allow readers to learn about and participate in the legislative process. The blog is located at www.cfidc.wordpress.com and can also be found on the CFI-Washington, D.C. website at www.centerforinquiry.net/dc For more information about CFI-OPP, please contact Toni Van Pelt, the Director of Government Affairs, at
Featured Events
Free Inquirers Group
May 10Free Inquirer Discussion Group
Join us for animated discussion at
11 am Saturday, May 10 at Tampa CFI Center
CFI members' Free Inquirers group enjoys freewheeling discussions and discovery. Differing points of view (can you defend your position?), new ideas, good humor (coffee and donuts?) make the gatherings both intellectually stimulating and good community bonding. The meeting often continues at a local eatery.
This month, each attendee is asked to review the latest free inquiry magazine, and pick a topic to lead the group through; Or, pick a current “local” topic of immediate interest. If you want to present a topic, e-mail your topic and outline to Rick. Plan on about 15 minutes for each discussion.
Added attraction: The enjoyable and famous “World’s Smallest Political Quiz” will be taken (to the amazement of some?). After all, if TV news feels it necessary to speculate constantly about the Democratic primaries, can’t we have some political fun?
free inquiry magazines are available by subscription, or, in the office for $5/copy. To subscribe, visit http://tinyurl.com/pg36b
Lecturers Series: Sound Bites you can use
May 17State your case in 30 seconds, or less: Sound Bites you can use
Saturday, May 19 at 11 am, CFI Tampa
Join us for our monthly Lecturers Series, in May featuring Meigs Glidewell.
Sound Bites for Humanists, Skeptics, and Atheists
Shopping? Bring your money and credit card. Swimming? Bring your suit and towel. Socializing? Bring your sound bites. So when someone asks "What is a Humanist/Skeptic/Atheist?" you have concise, easy to understand sound bites -- five to thirty seconds -- to supply the answer.
Meigs will give us some ready-made sound bites to answer such questions (and please bring your own, too, to add to the collection!), and she will present some rhetorical techniques that help you fashion brief, non-confrontation responses about religion and public policy. Meigs’ presentation will be about 30 minutes, with another 20 or 30 minutes for Q&A.
Meigs Glidewell, our presenter, has spent the last thirty years inventing, learning, and practicing the information she is going to give us this morning. How has she done that?
¨ As a professional editor, Meigs has edited hundreds of books for the computer industry, as well as dozens or books and articles written by friends and family.
¨ As a professional writer, Meigs has written more than 60 books for the computer industry.
¨ As a cartoonist, Meigs has drawn cartoons for Computer World, Popular Electronics, and many other magazines.
¨ As a comedian, Meigs has written jokes for Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller, and she performed standup comedy in Boston area clubs for several years.
¨ As a member of Toastmasters since 1981, Meigs has evaluated hundreds of speeches given by both amateur and professional speakers.
