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Missoula Area Secular Society outlines humanist purpose, outreach and church–state concerns on MCAT

Missoula Community Access Television (Your Missoula) · October 28, 2025
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On MCAT's Your Missoula, Dan Jensen of the Missoula Area Secular Society described the group's humanist identity, its origins in 2008, a core of 25–30 regular participants and a roughly 600-person mailing list. Jensen and host Joel Beard discussed screenings of the film Bad Faith and raised concerns about a recent federal memorandum and IRS policy,

On an episode of Your Missoula, Joel Beard, general manager of Missoula Community Access Television, interviewed Dan Jensen, a member of the Missoula Area Secular Society, about the organization's history, activities and views on the separation of church and state.

The Missoula Area Secular Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed in 2008 that Jensen described as "a group of, non believers, for the most part." Jensen said the group maintains a mailing list of about 600 people and a core of "25 to 30 people" who participate regularly, and that meetings range from social gatherings to philosophical discussions about…

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