About us
Join us in celebrating Humanism!
The Jefferson Humanists is a chapter of the American Humanist Association.
Our Vision : Free thinkers building a better community
Our Mission: to expand an ethical and life affirming humanist community devoted to science, reason, inclusion and social responsibility. Through community building, lectures, social activism, and discussion we expand our member’s awareness gain an understanding of the issues facing the world and provide learning opportunities through guest speakers on a variety of topics.
In addition to a wide variety of activities (including book discussions, hiking, happy hours and more), join us for our regular monthly meetings, which are held on fourth Sunday evenings at 4pm.
A typical meeting consists of a Keynote Speaker or Special Program followed by an opportunity for questions and answers.
Before the presentation, take some time to browse our free Humanist library, become a member of our Chapter, sign up for our newsletter, explore volunteer opportunities to help us build a stronger chapter, meet new friends, ask questions about Humanism and have some appetizer and wine.
For more information about the Jefferson Humanists, see our website, www.jeffersonhumanists.org. You can also keep current on what we are doing and humanist issues in your community and the world on our Facebook page.
Upcoming events
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Death Cafe sponsored by Jefferson Humanists
Common Flame (formerly Jefferson Unitarian Church), 14350 W. 32 Ave, Golden, CO, USTHE FIRST SAT OF EACH MONTH FROM 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
This is our monthly Death Cafe meeting, hosted by a JH member. Usually a certified death doula also attends. This is not a grief group. We discuss and share thoughts, questions and concerns around the topic of death. The objective is "to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite)
lives". There is no set agenda and everyone is welcome to attend, and participate, if they so desire. In the past we have discussed everything from water cremation to relatives bringing unwanted religious personnel to a dying person's bedside. To learn more about what a Death Cafe is and isn't, see https://deathcafe.com/what/.Location: We meet in the Mills Building behind Common Flame (formerly Jefferson Unitarian Church), at 14350 W. 32nd Ave, Golden. (Our group has no affiliation with the church.)
Please RSVP to this Meetup or email deathcafe@jeffersonhumanists.org. We request RSVPs so we can set out enough chairs. Also, the host will provide snacks based on the head count. Please bring your own choice of beverage.
This group is sponsored by the Jefferson Humanists. Find Friends. Share Ideas. Do Good. See our web page for more information about us and Humanism: www.jeffersonhumanists.org/
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Free Thinkers Book Group
Common Flame (formerly Jefferson Unitarian Church), 14350 W. 32 Ave, Golden, CO, USJoin FROG, the Free thinkers Reading Opportunity Group, for the Saturday September 12 book group meeting from 2-3:30 PM.
In September we'll be discussing Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart.
Adapted from Goodreads:
Both biting and deeply moving, Vera, or Faith is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child.The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original.
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This book group is sponsored by the Jefferson Humanists (Find Friends. Share Ideas. Do Good.) It is free and open to the public. To learn more about us, see jeffersonhumanists.org. You can also find our reading list for the entire year there.The Humanists provide snacks, bring your own beverage of choice. Please RSVP to this Meetup so I know how many chairs to set out!
Upcoming Book Group Meetings:
October 10 - Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
November 14 - Topic - Best books You Read in the Past Year - attendees share good books they have read in the past year1 attendee
Past events
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