Sweeney had her first moment of spiritual bravery at age 10. “It’s the sugar that goes with the bitter,” she said of comedy. “We can just be brave and think and feel.” Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein said comedy is an excellent – not an odd – medium for delivering the humanist message. “Letting Go of God” was described by the Los Angeles Times as “brave and hilarious.” It’s a tour of Sweeney’s humorous grappling with the Big Questions: the meaning of life, the fact of death, and the sweet unreality of heaven.Įarlier this month, Sweeney played nine shows of “Letting Go of God” at the Ars Nova Theater in Manhattan.Īt Sanders, her performance is sponsored by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, and by the Harvard Secular Society. 26), it will be onstage at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre – a one-night New England premiere for the show, which played in Los Angeles throughout 2005. There’s more good news: Sweeney made her decade-long search for a spiritual path into a monologue play, “Letting Go of God.” Sweeney described her Roman Catholic upbringing as “85 to 95 percent wonderful.” But she said embracing real life instead of an afterlife would be good news for the human race.

Julia Sweeney, Grammy-nominated former star of “Saturday Night Live,” went looking for God – and found out there was no God.

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