North Texas Church of Free Thought Forum

We began the January 5th service by considering whether this business of the "New Year" and, by some accounts (though not others), this “New Decade” means much of anything at all. In one sense it is arbitrary and, in another, not. For marking time, initially the days, then the seasons and months ba...

Our December 1st service began with comment about how Freethought relates to and fits with “The Evolution of Theology,” also the title of a wonderful essay by Thomas Henry Huxley which is available online for free here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2634 . Huxley presents evidence for and argues ...

Our November 3rd service looked ahead to the first of the major holidays later in the month, Thanksgiving, with a program featuring the subject “Gratitude For Freethinkers.” We began by noting that November 3rd is an important date in the timeline of the English Reformation. This was the date of the...

Our October 3rd service began with the usual (which varies a lot!) introductory remarks about the NTCOF and its vision and goals. It included this: “Say what you want about religion. Everybody does after all! But go ahead and say that it's all a terrible delusion, the worse thing that ever happened...

September's service opened with an account of the recent appearance of FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel who was in town to discuss and promote his new book Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American. If you have seen the national motto “In God We Trust” on police cars, on your property tax b...

The August service began with our usual look at what the NTCOF is doing and intends to, mainly to explore and discuss what it is like to be who we are with the intention of improving the quality of our lives. We considered the words of American playwright Jonathan Larson: “There's only now, there's...

We had an excellent and very thought-provoking service July 7th, well worth rolling out of bed for on a Sunday morning! If you missed, you missed out! We began with the fact that the NTCOF is itself a revolutionary undertaking. It is, in rejecting claims that religion is about supernaturalism, not ...

Our June 2nd service featured a MOMENT OF SCIENCE concerning recent archaeological discoveries that validate some material from Herodotus' Histories . We compared this to claims by Christian believers that various archaeological finds validate their theological beliefs. We then enjoyed a wide-rangin...

Our May 5th service included some commentary to the effect that the NTCOF can be compared to the "Darwin Fish" and that real progress in the mainstream religions has inexorably drawn them towards our point of view. It's too slow, of course, and there are strong forces that may prevent them from ever...

We had birthday cake at our February 3rd service celebrating 24 years since the very first NTCOF service on February 5th of 1995! The service included a discussion about the Periodic Table of the Elements which is 150 years old this year. It may sound like a dry subject but it revolutionized chemist...