About us
This group is operated by the Tri-City Freethinkers (July 26, 2011). [IRS ID#31669]
The Tri-City Freethinkers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community outreach organization serving the religion-free population of the Tri-Cities metropolitan area (Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, and West Richland) by bringing nonreligious community members together for support, education, and advocacy. We sponsor a range of social and educational events throughout the year including guest speakers from both the national secular movement and from our local/regional area. We provide opportunities for our members to engage with the broader community and elected officials and perform volunteer work in partnership with other local organizations.
We are a diverse group consisting of atheists, agnostics, skeptics, heathens, secular humanists, and pantheists; men and women; young, old, and in between; straight and LGBT; all ethnic and cultural heritages; highly educated to minimally educated; affluent and not; and people from all religious backgrounds and all ends of the political spectrum.
Affiliated with American Atheists and a member of the Mid-Columbia Coalition of Reason, the Tri-City Freethinkers offers a welcoming environment for nontheistic residents seeking relief from the religiosity of southeastern Washington.
We encourage you to follow our public page on Facebook, join our Facebook group, follow us on Twitter @TCFreethinker, and join us at one of our meetings or events.
To get an idea of what we do, check out this list of past events we've hosted or participated in.
You may be interested in these local satellite groups:
Tri-Cities Drinking Skeptically on Meetup and Facebook
Reasonable Doubt: A Secular Book Club
Young Freethinkers of the Tri-Cities
Tri-City Raising Freethinkers on Meetup and Facebook
Recovering from Religion: Tri-Cities Chapter
Upcoming events
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Reasonable Doubt reads - "Native Nations" by Kathleen DuVal
Blackthorn neighborhood pub, 201 W Kennewick Ave,, Kennewick, WA, USWe'll gather to discuss this month's book:
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America is a nonfiction history book by American historian Kathleen DuVal published in 2024. The book surveys a millennium of Indigenous history across North America, and highlights the political power, diplomacy, and endurance that the indigenous North Americans exercised both among themselves and against later European explorers and settlers over the centuries.[1][2]3 attendees
Critical Views - watching something
Round Table Pizza, 1769 Leslie Road, Richland, WA, USCreation is a 2009 British biographical drama film about Charles Darwin's relationship with his wife, Emma, and his memory of their eldest daughter, Annie, as he struggles to write On the Origin of Species. The film, directed by Jon Amiel and starring real-life couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles and Emma Darwin, is a somewhat fictionalized account based on Randal Keynes's Darwin biography Annie's Box.
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Past events
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