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We are the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (Connecticut), a community of people who embrace compassion for all people and use science and reason to find the truth. We offer a library of recorded audio and video podcasts on a wide variety of topics of interest to humanists, freethinkers, atheists and other secular people. Topics cover science, humanism, art, history, politics, legislation, religious freedom, and much more. The programs usually come from the live Featured Speaker Programs we hold each month where experts bring us the latest knowledge. You can learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter at HFFCCT.org. You can also watch videos of many of our programs at YouTube.com/@HFFCCT. We value your comments. Please feel free to contact us at humanismtoday@hffcct.org.

Episodes

  1. Scopes Evolution Trial

    12/27/2025

    Scopes Evolution Trial

    In this episode, we collaborated with Connecticut's public radio station, WSHU, to bring a special commemorative program on the 100th anniversary of the Scopes evolution trial. The most notorious trial of the 20th century, according to our speaker, historian and author Brenda Wineapple. It was bigger than OJ. It pitted creationism against evolution. We're thrilled to host this conversation between historian Brenda Wineapple and HFFC member and Connecticut attorney Stephen Keough. Brenda Wineapple's latest book is Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation which is the basis for this podcast. She is an award-winning historian, literary critic and essayist and author of seven nonfiction books. She is the recipient of such honors as the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellowship and Pushcart Prize. She was a finalist with a National Book Critics Circle Award, and most recently, a Coleman Fellow at the New York Public Library. She teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University. Stephen Keough is a graduate of Yale College and Columbia Law School. He practices in the area of elder law, trust, and estates, long-term care and federal needs, and is a frequent speaker to the bar and the general bar on these topics. He's also an adjunct member of the faculty at UConn Law School, where he teaches the school's elder law clinic. He's a member of the Community Bioethics Forum under the auspices of the Yale Medical School Program for Biomedical Ethics. Stephen also shared that his great, great, great, great grandfather was from Tennessee and would probably be turning over in his grave right now.  This episode was recorded on March 9, 2025. You can find more information of interest to humanists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, nonreligious and nonbelievers at the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (Connecticut) website: HFFCCT.org.

    51 min

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We are the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (Connecticut), a community of people who embrace compassion for all people and use science and reason to find the truth. We offer a library of recorded audio and video podcasts on a wide variety of topics of interest to humanists, freethinkers, atheists and other secular people. Topics cover science, humanism, art, history, politics, legislation, religious freedom, and much more. The programs usually come from the live Featured Speaker Programs we hold each month where experts bring us the latest knowledge. You can learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter at HFFCCT.org. You can also watch videos of many of our programs at YouTube.com/@HFFCCT. We value your comments. Please feel free to contact us at humanismtoday@hffcct.org.