The Traveling Humanist: The Panthéon in Paris, France
I was once walking along West Nanjing road in Shanghai at ten o'clock in the evening when I ran across an old French acquaintance that I hadn't seen in several years. We were both pleasantly... Read More
See What Local Groups Are Doing for National Day of Reason
Want your local humanist group want to participate in National Day of Reason but don’t know how to start? It’s not too late! There are many local groups throughout the country that plan to celebrate... Read More
CELEBRANT
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
It’s a Wonderful Life is such a cheery movie, we forget that the main character, George Bailey, gets drunk, crashes his car into a tree, and is about to jump off a bridge when his... Read More
Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind
Doubting the divine while still wearing the seal of the cross can be psychological torture, like being held captive in a medieval dungeon of the mind. It is a place of loneliness, despair, and limited... Read More
Your Humanist Poll: Are You Still Watching Cosmos?
The seventh of thirteen episodes of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey airs this Sunday, April 20th on Fox (and Monday on National Geographic Channel). Are you still engaged with Neil deGrasse Tyson's re-boot of the Carl... Read More
Humanist Voices in Verse: “To Weathermen”
This week’s poem is by Daniel Thomas Moran, TheHumanist.com poetry editor, retired dentist and Boston University Assistant Professor, former Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York and the author of seven collections of poetry. He... Read More