Alexander Delorme is the current President of the University of Alberta Atheists and Agnostics group. He accompanied our car pool to Kamloops for the Imagine No Religion conference that was held last weekend and he has shared some thoughts on the event.
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I spent this past weekend in Kamloops, British Columbia, at the Imagine No Religion 4 conference. This annual conference is propped up by a number of Canadian humanist and secular organizations, and consistently features an A-list lineup of speakers. This year’s speakers offered a wide range of topics, from evolution to rhetoric to popular culture, and effortlessly entertained the crowd with natural and engaging stage-presence. Perhaps most wonderful about the conference, however, was the opportunity to meet friendly and thoughtful people and to forge boundary-defying bonds with freethinkers, scientists and philosophers of all stripes.