Galleries, photos, cartoons (October 2018)

Life Member Tom Johnson sent us several photos from throughout his amazing life and FFRF shared them with our members. “Here’s doddering me, shaved and all gussied up to go with my daughter Carole to the store for ice cream and other necessities. I forgot to look for pickled herring!,” he writes. “I call that walking stick ‘Leroy’ and the other one in the house is ‘Zeke,’ both named after long-gone old friends. Oh, the joys of these happy, carefree golden retirement years, at 95. My charming cardiologist told me yesterday my pacemaker is good for another seven years. Think I’ll make it?”

“As an aviation ordnanceman, I went on a practice dive-bombing mission in North Carolina and found I wasn’t cut out to be a rear gunner,” Tom writes. “I got very airsick and never went again.”

Tom was born in 1923 and raised, with his sister Rosemary, in the small village of Center City, Minn. He graduated high school in 1940 and then, as a member of the Marine Corps, “was hauled four times across the country and as far west as Guam” during World War II.

FFRF’s Greater Sacramento Chapter has been doing great things recently (with the assistance of FFRF’s Nonbelief Relief). In the photo, chapter Secretary Janet Thew, center, and chapter President Judy Saint, right, stand with a school coordinator after donating goods. The secular school is designed specifically for homeless and transient young children, often living in cars with their parents, who might be in and out of classrooms too often to benefit from regular public education. The Sacramento chapter also donated to Wind, a secular organization that provides temporary shelter, laundry, showers, counseling and job placement for youth who have been aged out of the foster care program, keeping them off the streets.

Walk by faith

Confession cartoon

Big Springs Church

Denver Freethought

Sweep it under the rug.

Several FFRF staff members attended the Religious News Association conference in Columbus, Ohio, recently. From left, Communications Director Amit Pal, FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor, Associate Counsel Liz Cavell and Director of Strategic Planning Andrew Seidel participated in the event. Pal gave a brief speech on FFRF, and Gaylor, Cavell and Seidel were panelists on a discussion of church/state separation in the Trump era.

More than 130 friends and colleagues celebrated the freethinking and humanist contributions of Dr. Harold and Doreen Saferstein (couple in center of photo) in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Sept. 15. The Safersteins are Lifetime Members of FFRF many times over, and generous supporters of many other secular, humanist, local and national organizations. FFRF was a major co-sponsor helping to underwrite the Safersteins’ arrival in style, the cake (pictured), a plaque and other thank-yous. The tribute dinner was coordinated by the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix and various local nontheistic groups. Pictured with them at left (laughing heartily) is Stephen Uhl, another major freethought and FFRF benefactor. FFRF Co-President Dan Barker, who could not be there, composed the following tribute for the Safersteins (Hal is a well-known light versifier himself): “A couple with big-hearted latitude And utterly unselfish genes Deserves our exuberant gratitude: The generous Safersteins.”

Clergy line-up

Sex scandal

Wolf

Exorcism

Galleries, photos, cartoons (October 2018)

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