Hey, friends! This is a quick housekeeping post to fill you in on a few things I’ve got coming up. I’m so excited to share some of this with you, and to fill you in on the rest as soon as possible!

After coordinating an interfaith community service project to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11 that drew nearly 200 amazing volunteers from all across New England to package over 10,000 meals for food insecure children and write letters urging legislators to support famine relief, I traveled to Mobile, AL to speak for the University of South Alabama Secular Student Alliance, started my work with the Harvard Humanist Graduate Community, and more. All in all, September was an incredible month.

Since then, I’ve been hard at work planning events for the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, working on edits to my book, and juggling several other projects. Here’s a few things I’ve got coming up in the next couple months, with others to be announced later!

October Service Project

Tomorrow, the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard will award Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane with the Humanist of the Year award. With all the busyness of that event, it would be easy to overlook the other activity we’re hosting that day: an environmental sustainability service project, coordinated in partnership with the Cambridge Energy Alliance and Home Energy Efficiency Team – Massachusetts.

At 10:30 AM, we’ll head to to Spontaneous Celebrations, a community cultural center in Jamaica Plain that unites and empowers people for positive change through the arts and produces seasonal celebrations for Jamaica Plain and Roxbury residents. Once there, we will help update their historic building and facilities so that they are more environmentally friendly. We will be joined by members of “Gays For Good,” and volunteers can pitch in for as long or as short as they like. RSVP on Facebook, and spread the word!

October and November Speaking Engagements

Sunday, October 23 — Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

• 9:30 AM | Forum at First Unitarian Society (open to the public)
• 12:00 PM | Lunch discussion group at First Unitarian Society
• 6:00 PM | Speech at Hamline University (open to the public)

Monday, October 24 — Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

• 8:00 AM | Class discussion at Augsburg College
• 12:00 PM | Lunch discussion at Hamline
• 7:00 PM | Speech at Augsburg (open to the public)

Monday, November 7 — Winston-Salem, NC

• 7:00 PM | Speech at Wake Forest University (open to the public)
• Also, workshops and student meetings throughout the day.

NYC Event on Humanist Community and Interfaith Work

On Tuesday, November 15th, join the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard in NYC for an event to discuss communities for the nonreligious and the role of atheists in interfaith work and launch two groundbreaking new initiatives: The Humanist Community Project, and Values in Action at the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard.

Hosted by Park51 and Center for Inquiry NYC, in partnership with a wide swath of NYC-based organizations, this event is open to the public.

Thank you to our NYC co-sponsors: GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Faith House Manhattan, World Faith, Groundswell, Auburn Seminary, Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, Bronx Community College Secular Humanists, and others TBA.

RSVPs are appreciated, and donations to support the programs are welcome. To read more, click here!

November Service Project

Stay tuned for more information on this — we’re planning to double our September efforts and package 20,000 meals for those in need. More on that soon!

That’s all for now, but there will be more to come! I look forward to seeing folks in NYC, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Winston-Salem soon, and to staying in touch with all of you here, on Facebook, and on Twitter. As always, thanks for everything you’re all doing — I love hearing from people all around the world who are committed to challenging the notion that atheists and religious do not share common values, aspirations, and commitments. Keep it up, friends!