Category Archives: Chaplaincy News

NEW PLANS FOR FACULTY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Chaplaincy is proud to announce the new Faculty Board of Directors! You can check out a description and bio’s of our first three members in the link.

The idea of the Board is, first, to simply provide a degree of awareness among Rutgers students of like-minded professors. Part of the mission of the Chaplaincy is to provide a sense of community on the Rutgers campus. And part of community requires being acquainted with who the other members of that community are! Second, Board members will be encouraged to have informal dinners with students, that the Chaplaincy will help arrange, and to submit pieces to the Rutgers Humanist blog Applied Sentience.

Our first three members are all professors in the Psychology Department: Professors Gary Brill, Julien Musolino, and Daniel Ogilvie. To see their biographies and some of their current research, TED talks and interviews check out the link!

Though this is a good start, keep checking the page. We’ll be approaching many more professors over the summer and coming term!

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: STAFF WRITERS FOR ‘APPLIED SENTIENCE’

Calling Applications for Staff Writers and Contributors.

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‘APPLIED SENTIENCE’: A NEW BLOG BY THE RU HUMANIST COMMUNITY

The Rutgers Chaplaincy is planning on shifting the blog section of Humanist Issues to a new website. Currently Humanist Issues acts as the Chaplaincy’s newsletter as well as a forum for articles and discussions on topics related to Humanism. From now on the Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers will maintain it’s own newsletter, but will discontinue it’s blog.

Instead we are announcing Applied Sentience, a new independent blog!

Plans for a new website and social media are already in the works. We’re also looking for staff writers from Rutgers undergraduate, graduates and alumni.

In the coming weeks we’ll make sure to keep you up to date about the transition!

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BIG PLANS & AN INTRODUCTION

Rajesh Sannidhi

The Chaplancy’s blog Humanist Issues is planning some BIG CHANGES. We’re hoping to develop more and better content, reach more readers and attract more involvement from Rutgers students and alum.

To help with this expansion, I would like to introduce and welcome Raj Gopal, the blog’s new Co-Editor in Chief!

Raj is a Rutgers Philosophy major who (more…)

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CNN, MSNBC, NPR, WHITE HOUSE & MORE: HUMANIST CHAPLAINCIES IN RECENT NEWS

The past few weeks have seen a huge increase in visibility of Humanist Chaplaincies, and Humanism in general. Here’s some links to recent highlights:

In a recent post on the CNN Belief Blog, Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, was featured as a voice for building bridges and focusing on community during the holiday season; a counterpoint to more aggressive tactics in the atheist movement.
Boston’s NPR News Station (more…)

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CONGRATULATIONS: RUSH NOW AN OFFICIAL RUTGERS CLUB

Congratulations to the Rutgers University Secular Humanists!!

We’re proud of the accomplishments of the RUSH E-board and members who put together the constitution, members lists and other paper work and finally got provisional status as a actual club.

Cheers! And here’s to finally getting a budget and the chance to meet in actual rooms for your meetings!

Everyone at HCRU looks forward all the great projects in your future.

If you’re interested in joining the now official club, please check out the Rutgers U. Secular Humanist’s Facebook Page.

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TARGUM POST: HUMANIST EXAMINES U.S. POLITICS AT RUTGERS

If you didn’t make it to the David Niose talk you missed out. But you don’t need to miss out on a good summary of the discussion.

The Rutgers Targum, the University’s oldest newspaper, published a piece about the event on September 19th.

Check out the article in the link above.

In the talk David Niose discussed (more…)

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WELCOME BACK RU STUDENTS: EVENTS & CLUBS

September 4th is the first day of classes.

The Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers would like to WELCOME all of the new incoming students and all those returning, hopefully, well rested from the summer.

While finalizing your classes, we would like to invite you to get involved with your Rutgers community outside the classroom.

The Humanist Chaplaincy offers a number of presentations throughout the semester from (more…)

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PRESIDENT’S INVITATION, RU SECULAR HUMANISTS CLUB

By Jimmy Palmer,
President, RU Secular Humanist Club

Every time I am asked in front of Brower Commons, a known hotspot for fundraising and protest, to sign a petition I ask the obvious question, “What does this petition support?”

So I would be doing you a disservice if I were to ask you to join Rutgers University Secular Humanists (RUSH) and ask you to be a student Humanist without backing up what these items entail.

This will give you a good idea what to expect of RUSH, Humanism, and me, if writing is of any indicator.

RUSH is a brand new student organization which has its main goals in mind to, “…understanding the nature of humanity, promote humanism, and bettering the world through community service.” Taken from our Facebook page, we have outlined (more…)

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FLOURISHING! GALLUP POLL: HAWAII, UTAH, S. DAKOTA WINNING

A recent Gallup Poll puts residents of Hawaii, Utah and South Dakota at the top of the list for flourishing in the US.

At the bottom of the list? Residents of Maine and West Virginia were least likely to be flourishing.

Well, technically Gallup is using the term ‘Thriving‘.

In the upper end of the spectrum, States had around 60% of their residents thriving. On the lower end it was estimated at only around 40%. A pretty big gap!

But what does that mean? How are they measuring that? There are lots of studies on Affective Forecasting and (more…)

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AHA’S DAVID NIOSE, ‘RISE OF SECULAR AMERICANS’ – MON SEPT 17

This September, at the Chaplaincy’s first event of the semester, we will be presenting David Niose, the President of the American Humanist Association.

He will be presenting his new book Nonbeliever Nation: the Rise of Secular Americans.

The meeting will be Sept 17th at 7:30pm at the RU Student Center in Multipurpose Rm A, New Brunswick.

Details about the event in the flyer below:

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HCRU EVENTS LINE UP – SEPT-DEC 2012

The Chaplaincy is finally finishing up its plans for the Fall Schedule.

Below are our current plans for the semester’s events.

Let us know what sounds good or what else you might like to see. Suggestions, comments, squeels of excitement? Write them in the comments below!

Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans

Monday, September 17, 2012, 7:30pm, Rutgers Student Center

David Niose, President of American Humanist Association, discusses his new book, Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans, about “how public policy has been decimated by the rise of engaged religious fundamentalists since 1980” and how the modern secular movement (more…)

Posted in Chaplaincy News, Upcoming Events | Tagged chaplaincy, david niose, Edwina Rogers, events, humanist, humanlight, rutgers | 1 Comment

Student Orientation Schedule – June-Aug 2012

If you can attend, we would love to have you. If you’re showing up just to see the tables, make sure to stop by! You can either help us set up or just keep up company. Please send us an email if you would like to come. Thanks!

Tuesday, June 12th (Transfer/Adult)
Wednesday, June 13th (Transfer/Adult)
Monday, June 18th (First-year)
Thursday, June 21st (First-year)
Monday, June 25th (First-year)
Thursday, June 28th (First-year)
Monday, July 2nd (First-year)
Monday, July 16th (First-year)
Thursday, July 19th (First-year)
Monday, July 23rd (First-year)
Wednesday, July 25th (Transfer/Adult)
Thursday, July 26th (First-year)
Monday, July 30th (First-year)
Thursday, August 2nd (First-year)
Monday, August 6th (First-year)
Thursday, August 9th (First-year)
Monday, August 13th (First-year)
Wednesday, August 15th (Transfer/Adult)
Wednesday, August 29th (Transfer/Adult)

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Barry to Teach at Funeral Directors’ Edu Course

This weekend, Barry Klassel, the Rutgers Humanist Chaplain, will be one of the speakers at a Continuing Education course for Funeral Directors taking place on Tuesday, May 22, in Queens, New York.

The course is called “Serving Today’s Diverse Funeral Client: Tradition or Personalization? Is there room for both?” Barry will describe how to use ceremony to promote healing in a talk titled “Stenghtening Human Connections.” Barry has been officiating at end-of-life ceremonies since 2004.

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