Finding Community

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📄 Articles(4)

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Learn Religions

Learn Religions

explore the practices of your own faith, understand your neighbor's beliefs, and familiarize yourself with the world's major religions

📚 Books(1)

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Community: The Structure of Belonging

Peter Block

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government--do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to envision a common future and work towards it together. We know what healthy communities look like--there are many success stories out there, and they've been described in detail. What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.

🎙️ Podcasts(1)

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Building Atheist Communities, with Evan Clark

Evan Clark

Ahoy, godless Street Pirates! In this episode we are joined by Evan Clark, the executive director of Atheists United, a growing organization in California. He tells us about how the organization has been changing to meet the needs of the atheist community, including through its innovative Atheist Street Pirates program. It is a great how-to on getting people through the doors and then getting them to stay and become involved. We discover how reading books about church-planting informed Evan's approach to organizing, and we also learn, among other things, whether a "true atheist" can criminalize religious belief and when it is appropriate to remove religious signage.

🏢 Organizations(5)

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Church Clarity

Clarifying where churches stand on LGBTQ Policies & Women in Leadership.. Search your town name only, no state or submit your church

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Unitarian Universalist Association

A church that accepts anyone of all beliefs and lifestyles; including LGBT & atheists. Learn more and find a location near you.

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The Rationalist Association

Born in 1885 in Fleet Street, London, the RA has been promoting reason, science and humanism and standing up to irrationalism and religious intolerance ever since. We currently publish New Humanist magazine in print and online.

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Oasis Network

Oasis is a place for the non-religious to come together to celebrate the human experience.

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Central Florida Freethought Community

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📁 Other Resources(13)

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Center for Inquiry

CFI's interactive location map can help you find a local CFI branch that's near you can get involved with. Branches range from volunteer groups to professionally staffed groups meeting at CFI offices and lecture halls.

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Recovering from Religion groups

Meetup

Recovering from Religion is on Meetup Pro with more than 5365 members across 54 Meetups worldwide. Meetup Pro is the professional tool for organizing and communicating a network of users, partners, contributors and members.

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SelectSmart - Spiritual Belief System Selector

This quiz may help you decide where you fall on the spectrum of belief. The results may help you figure out which church or religious group might fit you closest.

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Skeptics in the Pub

Skeptics in the Pub are groups which meet and converse in the UK and beyond, usually gathering once every month.

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Local - Secular Directory

Secular Directory

There are many types of local groups for people who don't believe in a god or gods. These include those that identify as atheist, agnostic, bright, freethought, humanist, naturalist, skeptic, or use some other label. Such groups can, by their activities, be described as charitable, educational, philosophical, political, social, student, support, or more than one ... Continue reading "Local"

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Sunday Assembly

A network of secular (non-religious) communities who gather to celebrate this one life