Cycling is Back!

If you ever wanted to hang out with cool nonreligious friends AND get some exercise AND enjoy the Scenic City out in the fresh air, then boy howdy do I have some news for you.

Some of us Humanists are going to be gathering at the Tennessee Riverpark Wheland Foundry Trailhead, at 1503 Middle Street in Chattanooga, at about 10am on the 1st of May, and riding bikes to Rembrandt’s Coffee House and back.

If you want to bring your own bike, bring it. If you don’t want to bring one, you can rent one there at the trailhead, courtesy of the City of Chattanooga. They even have electrically motor-assisted “e-bikes” for the minimally athletic amongst us. 

Allow a little extra time if you need to rent one, because the process can be a little time consuming, and if you’re like me and insist on an e-bike, you may want to allow even more time to scout out a freshly charged-up speed machine.

Just remember to bring a helmet to protect your brain. We humanists understand the importance of those little grey cells between your ears. 

A Step Ahead Chattanooga Subject: Pregnancy Prevention and Healthy Communities

Speaker: Michelle Dunn-Loveless

Our Speaker will begin the evening on Sunday February 9th at 5Pm at the Unitarian Church. We will follow with food and drink as usual. Please join us.

Music with the Humanists

Sunday Jan 12th at 5PM at the Unitarian Church

Speaker: Darrin Hassevoort, Associate Professor of Music at Chattanooga State Community College
Subject: Darrin conducted Kim André Arnesen’s “Wound in the Water” this past November and will share some of the music as well as insights from this thought provoking and beautiful choral work. The work explores the theme of Mammon, the traditional symbol of the love of greed and money, by singing of our exile and the wounding of our world, of the beauty of the earth, and of the struggle of profoundly divided humanity towards a shared song. Mammon is a force that divides us, both internally – we become divided from ourselves, from our capacity for love – and communally- human beings become creatures of competition and conflict. Our relationship with ourselves, others, and the vividly living planet that is our home, slowly erodes and then collapses – and we come to live as homeless exiles in this threefold sense. This work recognizes the long journey towards the healing that we have to undergo and ends with an attempt of a shared song.

Sunday’s presentation title: What difference can we make in the struggle to protect our home planet?

Rod Harrison will speak to this topic at our December 8th meeting at 5Pm. A brief description from him follows:

The health of our planet has been significantly degraded by the number and behavior of Homo Sapiens. We will examine what can be done to improve the prognosis of our planet.

Navigating counseling as an atheist in the Bible Belt.

Travis McKie-Voerste is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and Approved Clinical Supervisor. He has been a professional counselor since 2009 and served as the head of the Dalton State College Counseling center prior to accepting a teaching position at Dalton State.

His research interests include college mental health, counselor-client relationship factors, counselor education and gatekeeping. His dissertation focused on investigating the experiences of atheists receiving counseling in the Bible Belt of the United States and he continues research on the role of religion in the counseling field.

Sunday, August 11, 2019
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Sunday, August 25: CHA Dinner

Please join us for our monthly dinner! It’s Pot-Luck so bring something and come hungry.

Sunday, August 25 at 5:00 PM
3224 Navajo Dr.
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37411