Recently, some of the children in our Free Thought - Free Kids group were winners in a national competition to create designs for cards and ornaments for the HumanLight celebration. You can now purchase merchandise with these designs right here. Congratulations again to the winners!

The HumanLight 2008 party is only a few days away! As part of the fun we have arranged for a local magician to come to the event but not simply to do a magic show, but to teach the kids a few magic tricks. Should be a lot of fun! If you are already planning on coming to the event and bringing children but you are not on the FTFK mailing list, please email us (ftfk@freethinkerscs.com) and let us know how many you will be bringing (we need to know how many tricks to hand out).

Parenting Workshop for Secular Families
Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical Caring Kids Without Religion

Sam Singleton, Atheist Evangelist will be bringing his one man
show to Colorado Springs! Thursday, December 18 at the City
Auditorium's Lon Chaney Theater. Show starts at 7:00 PM. Tickets
are $15 or $10 for students. You can purchase your tickets at
EvolveFISH or the Liberal Store or Independent Records. He will be in Denver on
Tuesday if Thursday isn't a good nite for you.

Flyers will be available at EvolveFISH and The Liberal Store after
Thanksgiving.

Exciting news from the FTFK group! In October the FTFK group got together for our kids to show their creativity and create Humanlight holiday designs to be submitted into a national competition run by the Humanlight organization.

Well, we just found out a couple of days ago that three of our kids were winners! Not only do they each win prizes but their designs will be put on merchandise (holiday cards and ornaments) that will be sold nationally. How cool is that!?

The FTFK group will be participating in the Humanlight celebration on December 20th this year.

Where:
Jack Quinn's Irish Alehouse and Pub
21 S Tejon St
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
(719) 385-0766

Time:
6:30 PM November 19th

Swing on by and join Drinking Skeptically for some good Irish pub food, drinks, and great conversations. We will be meeting at Jack Quinn's Irish Alehouse. Ask the front desk hostess to find out which table we are seated at. There is dollar parking at the Plaza of the Rockies, which is one block south from the pub.

Everyone is welcome even if you do not drink.

Don't forget to sign up!

Location: 315 East Costilla in Colorado Springs

John Patrick Michael Murphy, one of the founders of the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs, will be giving a talk about "The Early Days of the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs."

As reported in the Gazette, the Freedom from Religion Foundation (ffrf) has put up one of its billboards in Colorado Springs, on Academy between Dublin and Woodmen.

The billboard itself simply says "Imagine No Religion". "This is an alternative message that people need to hear in Colorado Springs, the hotbed of the Christian right," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the ffr.

Where were you the night the first African American President was elected?

Where were you the night of the greatest election race in living memory?

Where were you the night of one of the most inspiring, articulate, grateful, humble and powerful speeches - you will ever hear?

Where were you the night of one of the most gracious, articulate, conciliatory speeches from a losing candidate - you will ever hear?

I know where my kids were. They were watching history - and they'll never forget it.

Remember this night.

The Freethinkers of Colorado Springs have been invited to give the invocation at the Colorado Springs City Council meeting on Monday, November 10th starting at 1:00 PM. Rich Breidenbach, a member of the board, will be giving the invocation.

I couldn't resist writing on this topic.  Religulous just finished its 3rd week of release and is now officially the #1 documentary of 2008 in terms of box office revenues (and currently the #9 documentary of all time with a good chance of going even higher).

Issues 2008

Open Discussion

October 22, 2008

from 7:00 to 9:00 PM

at  315 East Costilla in Colorado Springs

Join other members of the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs for an open discussion on the issues of the 2008 election. 

We are so lucky to have a world class nature and science museum near to us in Denver. A fantastic new temporary exhibit just opened titled "Dinosaurs - ancient fossils, new discoveries". Can't wait to see it! Oh, right, nearly forgot ... it's for the kids!

Meet Sunday 2 November at 10.30am at the lobby of the Museum

If more than 10 of us are non-members then the price is $10 for adults and $5 for kids. If less than 10 non-members the price is only $1 more for adults and kids. There is no separate ticket required for the dinosaur exhibit.