Tell Us About Your Honored Heroes

Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB) is proud to announce that we are a "Special Friend" team partner with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) for their Light The Night Walks. We will be the rallying point around which local freethought, atheist, and secular humanist groups will form teams to participate in Light the Night Walks.

The 2013 International Team Honored Hero is Greta Christina. Greta is author of "Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless," and one of the most popular atheist bloggers. She is a regular atheist correspondent for AlterNet, Free Inquiry, and The Humanist, and writes at Greta Christina's Blog (now part of the Freethought Blogs network) since 2005. In 2012, Greta Christina was diagnosed with endometrial cancer. She was fortunate in getting the cancer caught early: she was treated with surgical hysterectomy and oophorectomy, and is now cancer-free. She has a presumptive diagnosis of Lynch Syndrome (a diagnosis based on family history), which significantly increases the odds of getting certain kinds of cancers, including endometrial and colon.

Walkers and teams are encouraged to use Greta as their own Honored Hero as well as choose people from their family or community afflicted by cancer to walk for. Walkers and teams may choose as many Honored Heroes as they wish and can share them with us here: