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	<title>The Godless Congregation</title>
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		<title>Enjoying The Happiness of Others</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is Humanism about reason or about emotion? It might seem that reason is all we need, but as scientists such as Antonio Damasio have demonstrated, without feelings, we are unable to make choices. Reason guides us toward our goals, but to have goals and values, we need preferences, which come from emotions. So, is it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Mindful Leadership</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lately, there has been quite a bit of controversy about the use of mindfulness training in the corporate world. Are mindfulness programs just a way of making workers more stress-tolerant and thus more easily exploited? This is a question I discuss with the authors of the new book, The Mindfulness Edge, in the audio below. To give [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Dr. Jelani Cobb Marks Day of Solidarity for Black Nonbelievers at the Humanist Hub</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Epstein]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today marks the national Day of Solidarity for Black Non-Believers. Founded in 2011, it is a day that has grown more relevant and important each year, and feels particularly relevant this year: not only has racial justice finally risen to the very top tier of national priorities for discussion and debate in a major election [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Finding Meaning with Science and Mindfulness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How do we find meaning in our lives? Can mindfulness help? That’s the subject of my discussion with Gleb Tsipursky of Intentional Insights, author of Find Your Purpose Using Science. In my book, Secular Meditation, I claim that mindfulness can be half the secret to happiness. I cite a paper in which psychologist Daniel Kahneman [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Atheist Meditation: Mark W. Gura and Rick Heller in Dialogue</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/gregepstein/2016/01/atheist-meditation-mark-w-gura-and-rick-heller-in-dialogue/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three’s a crowd, and we now have three offerings for atheists interested in meditation. Is that too many books on one topic or rather, an indication of burgeoning interest? I think it’s the latter. Besides Sam Harris’s Waking Up, the others are Atheist Meditation Atheist Spirituality by Mark W. Gura and my book, Secular Meditation. Mark and I recently [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Science Must Always Be Skeptical of Its Own Findings</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons that science is such a useful guide to reality is that, over time, the body of scientific knowledge updates as new information comes in. So, it turns out that one of the studies I reference in my book, Secular Meditation, has been falsified by the very people who originally produced it. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cultivating Kindness During the Holiday Season</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/gregepstein/2015/12/cultivating-kindness-during-the-holiday-season/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Though this is the season for good will, holiday shopping madness sometimes points people in another direction. Then there are the family gatherings that bring loved ones together to dredge up arguments about who said what in 1987. In such times, it’s good to have a tool that helps you cultivate good will. One way [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Humanist Community Day Speaker #3: Sasha Sagan on the Solstice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Epstein]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is the third in a series of three posts about the upcoming Humanist Community Day mini-conference in honor of the 2nd anniversary of the opening of the Humanist Hub, a community home for atheists, agnostics and allies in the greater Boston area. Our third Humanist Community Day speaker session will feature Sasha Sagan: a writer, producer, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Harvard Humanist of the Year 2015: John Amaechi, OBE</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Epstein]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is part two of a series of posts about the upcoming Humanist Community Day mini-conference in honor of the 2nd anniversary of the opening of the Humanist Hub, a community home for atheists, agnostics and allies in the greater Boston area. For our second of 3 Humanist Community Day speaker sessions, The Humanist Hub and the Humanist Community [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Humanist Community Day Speaker #1: Ron Suskind on Life, Animated</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Epstein]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is part one of a series of posts about the upcoming Humanist Community Day mini-conference in honor of the 2nd anniversary of the opening of the Humanist Hub, a community home for atheists, agnostics and allies in the greater Boston area. Our first of 3 Humanist Community Day speaker sessions features one of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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