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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

Summer Picnic at Duke Island Park, August 2022

NJHN Zoom dinner 1/18/22

NJHN Zoom Summer Funday 8/22/21

“We needn’t resort to myth to get that spine-chilling thrill of being part of something grander than ourselves. Our vast universe provides us with enough profound and beautiful truths to live a spiritually fulfilling life.”
by Sasha Sagan
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
“I can think of few systems more dysfunctional than the Roman Catholic Church – Iran, Uganda, the followers of Warren Jeffs. It's hard to reform a dysfunctional system, especially one that's been around for two thousand years, reaches into nearly every country in the world, and claims divine infallibility.”
by Mary Johnson, Humanist celebrant, former Missionaries of Charity nun, author of An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2012/08/13/an-interview-with-mary-johnson-a-nun-who-worked-under-mother-teresa-and-later-became-an-atheist/
“We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.”
by Susan Jacoby