CFI Los Angeles

The Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles, is a branch of CFI-Transnational, an educational nonprofit organization that explores and advances critical thinking, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values through education, outreach, and social services.

To learn more about who we are, and the services we offer our surrounding communities, please visit the links on the navigation bar of our web site or contact us at info[at]cfiwest.org.

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Labor Day Huge Book Sale and Food Fest
Sunday, Sept. 5
Noon - 4 p.m.

Join us for a holiday celebration with our biggest book sale ever on the patio while enjoying various food selections for sale from several food trucks that will gather in our parking lot! We also will have numerous magazines, DVDs, and CDs for sale.

CFI-L.A. will sell most hardbacks for 50 cents; paperbacks and magazines for 25 cents; and DVDs and CDs for $1, or less. In addition, for this day only, we’ll sell overstocks from our book store for 50% off!

Donate Your Books, CDs, and DVDs to CFI!

We need your old books for our biggest book sale ever!

Please donate books, CDs, and DVDs by bringing them to the Center no later than 5 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 2. (Please, no magazines, video or audio tapes, or phonograph records.) The proceeds from the sale will benefit the Center for Inquiry-L.A.

feed your brain
Lecture Series

These events feature fascinating authors, scholars, and luminaries from many fields that expand our knowledge and understanding of the world and the people who inhabit it. Held twice monthly on Sundays. Learn more

Become a Friend of the Center!

Friends of the Center membership entitles you to free admission to our twice-monthly programming; discounts on books, magazines, conferences, workshops, and merchandise; and invitations to special events offered only to Friends. In addition, local businesses now offer discounts to our members through our Friends of the Friends program.

Individual membership starts at $60/year. To see a full list of membership levels and benefits, go to http://www.centerforinquiry.net/support/friend_of_the_center/.

SPECIAL OFFER!
Receive discounts on subscriptions to CFI publications Free Inquiry and Skeptical Inquirer magazines when you become a Friend of the Center.

For only $99 you will receive an Individual membership PLUS one-year subscriptions to Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry (subscription value $70).
For only $79 you will receive an Individual membership PLUS a one-year subscription to either Skeptical Inquirer or Free Inquiry (subscription value $35).

FEED YOUR BRAIN Lecture DVDs
available in our online store!

Barbara Oakley

Chris Mooney

Clifford Johnson

Eddie Tabash

DVDs can also be purchased in our bookstore or by calling (323) 666-9797. Shop

Celebrating Rites of Passage
Marriages & Civil Unions ● Funerals & Memorials
Namings & Graduations ● Retirements

As we pass through life, we celebrate many occasions filled with joy and love, accomplishment and striving, loss and grief. The message of the humanist is emphasis on the potential goodness of life - humanist ceremonies are ingredients to a life well lived. CFI-L.A. can provide celebrants to officiate at the above celebrations and can also provide facilities.

For information about celebrants, contact Jim Underdown at jimu[at]cfiwest.org or call (323) 666-9797 ext. 101.

Hollywood Reality Check
CFI-L.A. Executive Director Jim Underdown's blog
Hollywoodrealitycheck.com

Skeptical Sunday with Jim Underdown

Are We Alone? is the SETI Institute's weekly radio show. Once a month, the program examines pseudo-science with “Skeptical Sunday,” which features CFI-L.A.'s Executive Director Jim Underdown as a regular guest. The show is available as a download here (http://radio.seti.org) and is podcast as SETI: Science & Skepticism.

Are We A Blog?, SETI's companion to the Are We Alone radio show, now features coffee lid UFO photos by Jim Underdown.

Jim Underdown can also be heard in this podcast of the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, following the interview with Teller (of Penn & Teller): www.theskepticsguide.org.

Arguments against the existence of God
by Eddie Tabash, Honorary Chair of CFI-L.A.
Read article 1
Read article 2

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