December 2015
Passport to Hiroshima At our November General Meeting we were pleased to have Toshiharu (Tosh) Kano as our guest speaker. Tosh and his wife currently reside in the foothills of Mount Olympus, and he “enjoys a quiet life with their …
Category: Utah Humanist
November 2015
Mentoring Reconsidered Dr. Mary Jo Hinsdale, author of Mutuality, Mystery and Mentorship in Higher Education, is the Director of the McNair Scholars Program at Westminster College. She spoke to us on October 8 concerning mentoring “outsider” students. While this PhD …
October 2015
Founding Politics: Debating the Constitution in Philadelphia Professor Jeremy Pope from the Political Science Department of BYU presented our Founders Day lecture. He started by discussing George Washington’s “first farewell” which was titled Circular to the States, the third sentence …
September 2015
“The Satanic Verses” – What Was the Problem? I found myself incensed last January when the editors and cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo were murdered by Islamists in Paris, and the patrons of a kosher grocery slaughtered. It immediately struck me …
August 2015
Alliance for a Better Utah At our July meeting, Josh Kantor, who co-founded Alliance for a Better Utah, told us why he wanted to organize around making life better in Utah. He came to Salt Lake from Chicago then realized …