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The Center for Inquiry Indiana announces that Sunday, September 23, is an historical milestone for secularism in Indiana: the new Center for Inquiry Indiana opens its new offices. The event is consecrated (if that word is appropriate) with a major conference: “Promoting Science and Reason at the Crossroads of America.”

When: Sunday September 23 — 8:00 AM registration starts at the Center’s lovely office on the Canal; then it moves down the Canal to the Indiana History Center, where the program starts at 9:30

Where: registration at 350 Canal Walk, Suite A, Indianapolis; program at Indiana Historical Society

 After introductions and welcoming speeches by Sarah Stone, President of IUPUI Freethinkers and Reba Boyd Wooden, Founder and Executive Director of Center for Inquiry Indiana , Center for Inquiry Transnational Founder and Chairman, Dr. Paul Kurtz, will speak about “The New Secularism: Agenda for the Future.”   Other speakers for the day are:   Toni VanPelt, Director of  Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy in Washington, D.C. who will speak about her work with the nation’s leaders on Capitol Hill.  Joe Nickell, Paranormal Investigator, who will tell talk about some of his many investigations.  Joe has just finished filming ten new episodes for National Geographic and his investigations are the subject of the new Hillary Swank movie, “The Reaping.”  (You can read Joe’s comments about the movie at:  http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/reaping.html) Eddie Tabash, dynamic civil rights lawyer and debater from

Los Angeles, speaking on “The Threat of the Religious Right to our Modern Freedoms.” Reba Boyd Wooden, Founder and Executive Director of Center for Inquiry Indiana will close out the session by spotlighting the

Indiana center and emphasizing the purpose and importance of grassroots communities and centers.  Reservations for lunch and the evening banquet must be in by September 10. Conference registration will continue until all the seats are filled.  On site registration the day of the conference will be on a space available basis.  There will be a free reception at Center for Inquiry Indiana from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.   For more information and to register for the conference email: cfiindy@insightbb.com, call 317-797-5892 or go to www.centerforinquiry.net/indy

If this event sounds interesting, check out … the Center for Inquiry Indiana’s discussion of “Gifts of the Freethinkers” during Spirit & Place in November. Sheila Kennedy is discussing the themes of her book God and Country: America in Red and Blue November 14. And a contrast might be some of the discussions of spirituality and the environment during Spirit & Place: freethinking rationalists are likely to get impatient by laborious efforts to reconcile science with faith.

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