Our monthly meetings are usually held the third Monday of each month from 6:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Currently, the meetings are held via ZOOM. If you are new to ZOOM, please see our page How to Join a Zoom Meeting

ZOOM and other details about each meeting can be found on our Meetup site: https://www.meetup.com/FirstCoastFreethoughtSociety/

Please subscribe to our YouTube channel where you may watch videos of past meetings. https://youtube.com/@firstcoastfreethoughtsociety

Upcoming Speakers

August 17, 2026 – No meeting due to summer hiatus

September 21, 2026 – Andrew Germain – Retired NASA engineer Andrew Germain will give a presentation focusing on Clare Graves’ “Spiral Dynamics” Model of the Development of Value Systems, and related work, along with a proposal for a new direction for democrats based on it, with Q & A and discussion following. RSVP on Meetup.

October 19, 2026 – Kate Parker, Florida End of Life Options, will give a presentation on an introduction to Medical Aid in Dying, the details of the law, the requirements for eligibility, and the safeguards provided. In addition, she will discuss where in the US it is already legal and the current state of our bill in Florida. RSVP on Meetup.

November 16, 2026 – Mary and Todd Avery, retired Foreign Service Officers

December 21, 2026 – Annual Human Light Celebration (in person)

January 18, 2027 – Marc Bamgart, Embrey Riddle, AI, Robotics and the future

February 15, 2027 – Jason Schwab, Flagler, Disaster Prep from an Artistic Perspective

March 15, 2027 – Jessica Chandras, UNF, Language and Culture

April 19, 2027 –  Aditya Dutta, Psychology and Human Emotions

Monthly Meeting Archive

You can view the archive of our monthly meetings (dating back to 2003) HERE.