Message from the Editor: The Back to School Issue
It’s back-to-school time! This week’s issue covers humanism and education—from the importance of comprehensive sex education to the need for nonreligious Sunday Schools. Check... Read More
New York City Makes the Moral Choice: School Sex Ed
New York City has just mandated sex education in all public schools. Students in middle school and high school will get one semester each.... Read More
Back to School: What Are Secular Students Up To?
By Lyz Liddell As students head back to school, the Secular Student Alliance is already working hard to make sure that secular campus... Read More
Helping Our Kids Become Humanists
By Philip E. Johnson The classic approach to learning, worldwide and since the beginning of education, has been the general idea of the transfer... Read More
The Sunday School Alternative: Starting a Children
By Bob Bhaerman As director of the Kochhar Humanist Education Center, whose mission is to offer lifelong education resources that teach positive humanist values,... Read More
Celebrate Women
By Bernadette Cahill Women’s Equality Day (August 26) is a national commemorative day that deserves instant recognition by all citizens, like Martin Luther King... Read More
Inside Scientology: Visiting the Church and Reading Dianetics
Magma streams like rivers down the gape of an erupting volcano. It could symbolize the Roman god Vulcan, forging the pillars of the Earth.... Read More
Humanist Voices in Verse: Remembering Samuel Menashe
This week’s featured poems are by Samuel Menashe, a New York poet who received the first Neglected Masters Award in 2004 by Chicago’s Poetry... Read More
The Weekly Humanist Puzzle: More Dawkins
If you like cryptograms or crossword puzzles, you’ll love Drop Quotes! Drop Quote puzzles contain a hidden quote. The spaces for each letter in... Read More
The Comics Section: On Education
Comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and Atheist Cartoons on the subject of education. [click to enlarge]