Winter Solstice Potluck featuring Richard Carrier

HCCO is pleased to announce our 2014 Winter Solstice Potluck! As we are temporarily without a staff person, this year's event will be less formal and less expensive than the Winter Solstice Banquets of some previous years, but hopefully just as enjoyable. Families with children will be welcome at this spacious park.

We look forward to hosting prominent atheist author and blogger Richard Carrier. Mr. Carrier gave a keynote speech at a previous HCCO event and was positively received. Richard Carrier, Ph.D., is a philosopher and historian with degrees from Berkeley and Columbia, specializing in the contemporary philosophy of naturalism, and in Greco-Roman philosophy, science, and religion, including the origins of Christianity. He blogs and lectures worldwide, teaches courses online at Partners for Secular Activism, and is the author of many books, including his defense of a naturalist worldview in Sense and Goodness without God, his academic case for the non-existence of Jesus in On the Historicity of Jesus, his work on historical methodology in Proving History, his responses to 21st century Christian apologetics in Why I Am Not a Christian and Not the Impossible Faith, and an anthology of his papers on the subject of history in Hitler Homer Bible Christ. He has also authored chapters in many other books, and articles in magazines and academic journals, and on his namesake blog.

You can learn more about this year's keynote speaker at http://www.richardcarrier.info/ .

Topic of keynote speech: Oh No! Humanism Means Stuff! Why Compassion + Critical Thought = Feminism

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Pre-registration is not required this year, but a suggested donation will be collected (electronically or in person as you prefer) to cover the cost of the venue and speaker. Please stay tuned as more details will follow.