WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?

• If you believe in critical thinking and strive for intellectual honesty,
• If you put a high priority on utilizing science and reason rather than superstition and supernaturalism,
• If you are open-minded and progressive,
• If caring for the earth and the entire human family is important to you,
• If you believe in the separation of church and state,
• If working to end all forms of religious oppression is also important to you,

THEN THE JEFFERSON CENTER IS FOR YOU!

At the Jefferson Center -

• You can get together with like-minded people to discuss these and other issues.
• You can learn new ideas and share what you know.
• You will be with a group of people who like to think big thoughts and wrestle with the big questions of life.
• You can hone your critical thinking skills and fine-tune your intellectual honesty.

Please join us for –

• Monthly Ashland Salons at the Jefferson Center– small group discussions on a variety of topics
• Our Fall and Spring Lecture Series – learn from the big thinkers of our time
• Our on-line newsletter, The Compass
• Plus other special events (TBA) 

To learn more about us, explore our additional pages by clicking on the upper left buttons. Join now! Visit our membership page. Tell your friends about us and our events!

COMING EVENTS: May and June Salons, the Jefferson Center Reading Group, Fall 2008 Lecture.

May Salons:

Tuesday, May 27th at 2:00 pm or Wednesday, May 28th at 7:30 pm at The Jefferson Center in the Old Ashland Armory, Suite 101, 208 Oak Street, Ashland, Oregon

Ed Fremouw, Jefferson Center board member and ionsopheric scientist, will present an illustrated discussion on the Auroras, north and south, source of poetry and wonder.

"Oh, roar a roar for Nora, Nora Alice in the night. For she has seen Aurora Borealis burning bright. A furore for our Nora! And applaud Aurora seen! Where, throughout the Summer, has Our Borealis been?" — Walt Kelly's Songs of the Pogo

June Salons:

Tuesday, June 25th at 2:00 pm or Wednesday, June 26th at 7:30 pm at The Jefferson Center in the Old Ashland Armory, Suite 101, 208 Oak Street, Ashland, Oregon

 Dr. Ed Battistella, Interim Provost of Southern Oregon University, distinguished English scholar and author of the Oxford University Press book Bad Language, will speak regarding critical thinking and the use of language today. 

 A New Endeavour. The Jefferson Center Reading Group

High Noon, June 18, 2008 at The Jefferson Center in the Old Ashland Armory, Suite 101, 208 Oak Street, Ashland, Oregon

Join Jefferson Center members Carol Voisin, Sandra Coyner, and Frank Lang for a no-host brown bag lunch discussion of Susan Jacoby’s new book The Age of American Unreason, Pantheon Book, NY. Hardback $26 (but see the Bloomsbury deal below).

From the jacket: With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought."

Jacoby is the author of the widely acclaimed Freethinkers: a History of American Secularism, named a Notable Book of 2004 by The Washington Post Book World and The Times Literary Supplement.

Call 541.488.9450 or info@thejeffcenter.org to RSVP and learn about the 30% discount at Bloomsbury’s Books in Ashland or for more information.

 Our Fall 2008 Lecture

October 23, 2008,  Southern Oregon University Campus

Featuring LORI LIPMAN-BROWN, Director/Lobbyist of the Secular Coalition for America.

Details to follow

OUR NEWSLETTER, The Compass Vol. 4 (1), IS NOW ONLINE

click Current Newsletter button on the left

Vol. 4 No. 2 (coming soon)

    Thomas says, "Donate your Jeffersons to the Center."  

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Our office is located in the Historic Ashland Armory at 208 Oak Street, Suite 101 Ashland, OR 97520 541.488.9450

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THE JEFFERSON CENTER is funded by a grant from the Minneapolis Foundation, the City of Ashland, from individual donors, and from members of The Jefferson Center.  Your contributions are gratefully accepted.  We are a non-profit organization with 501 (c) (3) status under the laws of the Internal Revenue Service, therefore your contributions are tax-deductible
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Tuesday, June 25th at 2:00 pm or Wednesday, June 27th at 7:30 pm at The Jefferson Center in the Old Ashland Armory, Suite 101, 208 Oak Street, Ashland, Oregon