Once in a while we come across a film, TV show or documentary that just so happens to delve into a timely topic and captures our interest. This happened to me recently while watching a college football game one Saturday night, a matchup I’d been looking forward to all day. To my disappointment, what I […]
Black Lives Matter… …and that people of all races are entitled to the same equal rights and opportunities. Yet the bible says God granted covenant and life-long priesthood to the Israelite Phinehas who impaled a mixed-race couple just for having sexual relations that would not keep God’s people pure (Numbers Chapter 25). Love is Love… […]
The Freedom From Religion Foundation and its Metropolitan Chicago chapter have placed their secular holiday displays all over the Windy City area. A colorful banner invoking the Founding Fathers has again been unfurled in Daley Plaza in the heart of Chicago. It greets everyone with “Happy Winter Solstice” and pictures Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin […]
Andrew Seidel, Director of Strategic Response at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has added Chicago as a stop on his national tour to promote his new book, “The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation Metropolitan Chicago Chapter will co-sponsor, along with the End of the Line Humanists. an evening […]
Through the help of a generous donation from a Chicago-area individual who was abused as a teenager by a Catholic priest, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and its Chicago chapter (FFRFMCC) have brought a campaign to call for a stop to child sex abuse by clergy to Chicago. Our initial attempts to run full page […]
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is proud to announce the placement of three separate Winter Solstice displays for 2018, designed to provide the non-religious point-of-view in celebrating the holiday season. At top, our sixth year bringing secular holiday greetings to Chicago’s Daley Center Plaza, is our multi-faceted display intended to counter a life-size Christian creche […]
By: Tom Cara, Executive Director, FFRFMCC The month of December can be a perplexing time for ex-Christians Like many who were brought up in the Christian tradition, I grew up with Christmas. Awaiting Santa’s arrival as a child still holds treasured memories within me. But, imagine going through all those years enjoying the fun and […]
The national Freedom From Religion Foundation recently announced they will be expanding market coverage of their weekly television program, “Freethought Matters.” Beginning September 2nd, the show will now air in three new cities: Portland, OR – KRCW-CW (Ch 32), Sunday at 9:00 a.m Sacramento, CA – KQCA-MY (58), Sunday at 8:30 a.m Chicago, IL – […]
FFRFMCC Commentary We recently had another National Day of Reason come and go, and I’ve spent the past several days that followed contemplating how sad it is that this event is something which gets little or no attention from the press, as it is heavily overshadowed by its religious counterpart, the National Day of Prayer, […]
The FFRFMCC is proud to announce it will be co-sponsoring next month’s Second Saturday Coffeehouse at the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago. The evening will feature progressive satirical singer/songwriter Roy Zimmerman, who will be in town on his current national tour, ReZist. ReZist is ninety minutes of Roy Zimmerman’s original songs, a funny and forceful […]
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