The Heart of Humanism

Below is a fantastic email from Amanda of the Harvard Secular Society. Please take the one or two minutes to read it all, then help any way you can. And as it’s written with a great sense of humor, one serious comment from me:

Humanists don’t pray to a higher power for support or success. We don’t expect others to stand up for us without ourselves taking action. If you want your community to shine as the diverse, inspiring global movement of service to humanity it truly is, instead of being shunned as America’s least trusted minority, this week is the time to help as though it depends on YOU.  With us putting on a show this big (and this good!) it really does. Thanks in advance.

POSTERING
Postering is a great way to meet those fabled people you hear about who are “early to bed, early to rise”.  If nothing else, Thursday morning will be a prime time to mock them.

Thursday, October 19th
7:05 am (!)
meet at John Harvard Statue

FLYERING
If you can make it,  starting Thursday afternoon, we will be flyering outside of the science center to advertise for “Letting Go of God” (blurb below – which you should send to your friends).  Julie Duncan has enthusiastically agreed to dress up in “It’s Pat!” garb and mimic the character for our enjoyment.  However, androgyny can only sustain her for so long, and we will need some other Pats to rise up and wear her costume – starting on Friday, *e-mail me if you are interested*.

*E-mail me if you can flyer during any of these times*:
Thursday, Oct. 19th
10:00 am
11:00 am
12:00 pm
1:00 pm
Friday, Oct 20th
10:00 am
11:00 am
12:00 pm
1:00 pm

CONSIGNMENT TICKETS
Have friends that are DYING to go see Julia Sweeney but are just too lazy to go over to the Harvard Box Office?  Problem solved.  Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein will supply Secular Society students with tickets to sell.  If you sell 10 tickets, you get 1 ticket FREE; if you sell 20 tickets, you get 2 tickets FREE.  Stop by his office during normal business hours – in the basement of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard where the University Chaplains are (his e-mail is gepstein@hds.harvard.edu).

FACEBOOK EVENT
RSVP to the event on Facebook “Julia Sweeney’s ‘Letting Go of God'”.  Then, invite all of your friends to come.

*please forward widely*

what’s that?

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I T ‘ S    P A T  !
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and  IT’S COMING…

Julia Sweeney’s one-woman comedy, “Letting Go of God”
Thursday, October 26th
8:00 PM
Sanders Theater
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$7 for Undergrads
Tickets on sale NOW at the Harvard Box Office
www.boxoffice.harvard.edu

JULIA SWEENEY

*former Saturday Night Live (SNL) star
*Desperate Housewives producer, writer, consultant
*Sex and the City creative consultant, writer

“LETTING GO OF GOD”

Preview: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CT5c3-k4uRE

Sweeney’s play comically chronicles her religious search, her struggle with doubts, and her final consideration of “Letting Go of God”.

“An excerpt of this show, ‘Letting Go of God’ is the single most popular story we’ve ever put on our show in over ten years on the air.  We were deluged with email.  Flooded.  Overwhelmed.  Somewhere, against all common sense, Julia is making something funny that has no business being funny.”
-Ira Glass, “This American Life”

presented by:

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Harvard Secular Society
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The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard
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