August 5,2008: Martha Knox

Liberal Christianity: Is there a silent majority of Christians whose worldview is more similar to humanism than fundamentalism?

Please join us on Tuesday, August 5 at 7:00 PM at the Ludington Library (5 S. Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010) for a presentation by Martha Knox, Humanist Celebrant, Director of the Humanist Association of Greater Philadelphia (HAGP) and Coordinator of the Greater Philadelphia Coalition of Reason (PhillyCOR). Knox has been a board member of the Secular Student Alliance and counselor for Camp Quest, and has ten years of leadership and volunteer experience in the freethought movement.

 Note: This is also a drop off time and location for the PhillyCoR Food and Fund Drive. Please contribute!

Details: The Age of Enlightenment brought forth new attitudes about the natural world, morality, and the meaning of life. It inspired secular government, religious freedom, and humanistic ethics. Today, a steady increase in atheism and agnosticism has been documented throughout the modern world. What has largely gone unmentioned is how Enlightenment has and continues to alter many Christian institutions and individual believers. Today's fundamentalists continue to lash out against modern society with increasing fervor and irrationality, but what about the silent majority of non-fundamentalists who check "Christian" on religious surveys, or clergy and theologians who reject the notions of a divine Jesus and a personal God? How similar to freethinkers are the most theologically liberal Christians?