Sunday Assembly in NYC

Heads up to readers in the NYC metro area: Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones, British comics and cofounders of atheist community congregation The Sunday Assembly, will be bringing one of their assemblies overseas to the Tobacco Road dive in Manhattan.

The Assembly, described by the founding couple as a “friendly community gathering for like-minded people”, draws generously from the structure of religious ceremonies in their Order of Service. Each congregation features several songs (Jones holds music to be very important to the “celebration of life”) interspersed with a guest speaker and a reading.  Evans and Jones have been working to spread the movement internationally by offering guidelines with which people can start their own assemblies, and given the unexpected response they’ve received, they’ve fundraised to travel to NY and help kickstart a local assembly there.

For more info on the Assembly, you can visit their website, or watch the video below to get another taste of the experience:

If you’re thinking of going, tweet us at @NPSBlog and we’ll connect you with other NPS fans planning on attending!

Walker Bristol is a nontheist Quaker living in Somerville, Massachusetts. A rising senior at Tufts University reading religion and philosophy, he covers social activism and class inequality in the Tufts Daily and has worked in on-campus movements promoting religious diversity, sexual assault awareness and prevention, and worker’s rights. Formerly, he was the Communications Coordinator at Foundation Beyond Belief and  the president of the Tufts Freethought Society. He tweets at @WalkerBristol.