TheHumanist.com is pleased to announce the winners of our first-ever humanist haiku contest! Two weeks ago we asked readers to express their thoughts on current global calamities and triumphs through an evocative poem. Submissions were... Read More

send ruminations to TheHumanist.com via short haiku Poetry has the power to transform minds and bring forth powerful moments of introspection. And with our shell-shocked world seemingly careening from crisis to crisis, we could all... Read More

  I need patience today, so I Google it to find patience comes from patientia, meaning sufferance, submissiveness, passiveness, enduring—all of this without complaining. Patience, an old-fashioned name the Puritans borrow from the Bible and... Read More

“The monster of modernity must be slowed.” —Roger Cohen, May 8, 2020, the New York Times Water, lime and sand made an ancient holy space—smothered by conquest’s heavy stones. As the conqueror’s walls collapse with... Read More

Stimulated Economy High above and in between the tropics on the darker continents ignored or mostly ignored in the places where the latte’s poured, the coffee cherries, picked and sorted, prepped to dry, lie on... Read More

They want me to be nonviolent, And surround me with violence. They want me to make better choices, And remove all meaningful choice. They want me to respect the law, And entangle me in petty... Read More

GOLDEN’S RULE Godwin’s Law* IT SEEMS THAT, Our thoughts aren’t quite the same,      my brother. OUR  SOURCES ARE DIFFERENT SO You may be misinformed,      my friend. PERHAPS Your passion is admirable,      comrade.... Read More