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When kids are involved, how should non-believers handle religious family?
Join the Freethinkers’ Forum on Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 6:30 pm at the Keith Summey Library in North Charleston. We will be discussing the question, “How should non-believers deal with religious friends and family when the issue involves children?”
Children shape and are shaped by the beliefs of the adults around them. Whether you’re a secular person raising your own children or a non-believer who cares for, mentors, or spends time with children being raised by religious parents, navigating relationships with religious friends and family about matters involving kids can be sensitive and consequential.
Productive Dialogue in Polarized Times: Effective Persuasion
How do we talk to people in propaganda bubbles? Join us at 3 pm on Sunday, February 15th in the auditorium of the main branch of the Charleston County Public Library, downtown for a workshop led by Dr. Bonnie Cleaveland on Productive Dialogue in Polarized Times: Effective Persuasion.
It can feel impossibly frustrating to talk with people who are deeply immersed in propaganda bubbles. How do we have productive conversations with people whose beliefs about the world—and even about basic facts—seem so different from our own? Not everyone can be reached, but for those who are open to dialogue, there are effective ways to connect.
Anti-ICE Protest in Marion Square
On Sunday, January 25, 2026 more than a dozen members of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry...
March 2026: Mother Emanuel by Kevin Sacks
Few people beyond South Carolina’s Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston–Mother Emanuel–before the night of June 17, 2015, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church’s charismatic pastor and eight other worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted Mother Emanuel–the first A.M.E. church in the South–to agitate racial strife, he did not anticipate the aftermath: an outpouring of forgiveness from the victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European settlement.
Happy Humanist Hour at La Hacienda
For our Happy Humanist Hour on January 13, 2026 we ate at La Hacienda on International Blvd in...
Lowcountry Food Bank (January 2026)
We had 11 volunteers for our monthly shift at the Lowcountry Food Bank on January 13, 2026. Some...
January 2026 SINO Protest
We had at least 50 people spread across the four corners of the intersection of Broad and Meeting...
Song Sung Blue
Come see the film Song Sung Blue with your non-religious friends from the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry (SHL)! We are going to the 3:30 pm showing at the Citadel Stadium 16 theater in West Ashley on Sunday, January 4, 2025.
After the movie those who wish will be going to dinner at Metro Diner, located at 1808 Sam Rittenberg Blvd in West Ashley for drinks, food and to discuss the film.
The January 2026 issue of The Separationist is out now!
We discuss the latest political outrage when Pete Hegseth moved to impose Christian nationalism on...
Upcoming Events
- Thursday, February 5th, Freethinkers Forum at 6:30 pm at the Keith Summey Library in North Charleston discussing the question, “Are there ethical limits that should be imposed on the pursuit of science and technology?”
- Saturday, February 7th, Movie Club watching Sentimental Value at 3:30 pm in the Reel Room at Overture.
- Sunday, February 8th, Secular Families Play Group at 11 am at Gahagan Park in Summerville.
- Sunday, February 8th, Pop-Up Protest at 2 pm in front of Charleston City Hall.
- Tuesday, February 10th, Volunteer at the Lowcountry Food Bank at 1 pm.
- Tuesday, February 10th, Happy Humanist Hour at 7 pm at Dragon Palace Bistro on Daniel Island.
- Wednesday, February 11th, SHL Kids Board Game Recess at 11:30 am at Hoodie Cat in Northwoods Mall.
- Thursday, February 12th, Makers’ Studio at 2 pm at the Mount Pleasant Wando Library.
- Sunday, February 15th, Productive Dialogue in Polarized Times: Effective Persuasion led by Bonnie Cleaveland at 3 pm at the Charleston Public Library.
- Saturday, February 21st, Food Distribution with Park Circle Cares at 8 am at North Charleston High School.
- Sunday, February 22nd, Adopt-A-Highway at 9:30 am on Azalea Dr in North Charleston.
- Sunday, February 22nd, Secular Families Play Group at 11 am at James Island County Park.
- Sunday, February 22nd, Book Club at 3 pm at the Charleston Public Library discussing Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds by John Fugelsang.
- Tuesday, February 24th, Trivia Night at 6:30 pm at Mex 1 Coastal Cantina in West Ashley.
- Sunday, March 8th, Secular Families Play Group at 11 am at Gahagan Park in Summerville.
- Sunday, March 15th, Coleman Watts: Confessions of a Former Conspiracy Theorist at 3 pm at the Charleston Public Library.
- Tuesday, March 17th, Secular Homeschoolers–Clover Hunting at 12:30 pm at Stono River County Park.
- Sunday, March 22nd, Secular Families Play Group at 11 am at Gahagan Park in Summerville.
- Sunday, March 22nd, Book Club at 3 pm at the Charleston Public Library discussing Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church by Kevin Sack.
Regular Monthly Schedule
Our normal schedule of events is as follows. Sometimes we deviate from our regular schedule for specific events and scheduling conflicts.
1st Sunday: Movie Club
1st Thursday: Freethinkers Forum
2nd Sunday: Activist Sunday
2nd Tuesday: Happy Humanist Hour (Dinner Club)
3rd Sunday: Member Gathering
4th Sunday: Book Club
4th Tuesday: Trivia Night
5th Sunday: 5th Sunday Brunch