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NJHN Book Club selections for September-December 2025

NJHN’s Book Club has chosen the next four books we’ll read and discuss for September-December 2025: Sep 25: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson ((2017, 223 pages, …

Events / NJHN Community

NJHN Summer Picnic at Duke Island Park on Aug. 24, 12-5 PM

  We invite you to join us for our Summer Picnic on Sunday, August 24, 12-5 PM, at the Oak Grove Pavilion, Duke Island Park, Old York Road, Bridgewater. This …

Events / NJHN Community / Program

NJHN Summer Art & Hobby Show on July 27

We invite you to join us at our Summer Art & Hobby Show to share your artistic talents and creative hobbies for all to enjoy! This could be your music, …

Events / Membership / NJHN Community / Program

NJHN June 22 Program with Kate Cohen: Why America Needs Atheists Now More Than Ever

  This month we’re hosting a talk by journalist and author Kate Cohen titled Why America Needs Atheists Now More Than Ever. Kate will speak about her decision to stop …

Events / NJHN Community

CANCELED: NJHN Tabling at Jersey Pride Festival on June 1

Unfortunately, due to a number of our volunteers dealing with illness this weekend, NJHN will not have a table at the Jersey Pride Festival in Asbury Park on Sunday. We’re …

Action / Membership / NJHN Community

NJHN 2025-2027 Board of Directors Election & Candidate Statements

Dear NJHN Members, Each year, NJHN holds an election for our Board of Directors, the governing body that makes programming and financial decisions with our membership contributions. Board members are …

Events / Humanism / NJHN Community / Program

NJHN May 18 Program – Seth Andrews: Dissent Is Our Duty (video of presentation via Zoom only)

For our program this month we’ll watch a video of a presentation given by Seth Andrews at the Western Canadian Reason 2025 Conference on May 3, 2025. His talk is titled Dissent Is Our …

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NJHN HumanLight Celebration 12/17/23
Members of NJHN and Red Bank Humanists tabling at Jersey Pride in Asbury Park, June 2023
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Freethought Quotes

  • “Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws.”
    by Zora Neale Hurston, author, anthropologist, and filmmaker
    Dust Tracks on a Road
  • “Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.”
    by James Baldwin
    The Fire Next Time
  • “Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
    by Jean-Paul Sartre
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