Parodies of Power: Why Satire Is Needed Now More Than Ever
Andrew Bradley is the creator of the satirical character Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian™. Betty is played by co-producer Deven Green in YouTube... Read More
About a Boy: My Transition from Religion and the Trauma It Inflicts
As a transgender high school student in Gloucester County, Virginia, Gavin Grimm sued the Gloucester Country School Board in 2015 for the right to... Read More
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns Seventy
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, France,... Read More
Support the Rule of Law, Not Autocracy
While our democracy has historically been described as a rule of law system under which we are governed “by laws and not of men”... Read More
Voters Ready for Nonreligious Candidates
There’s always been an assumption in American politics that a candidate will lose votes if they admit to being an atheist, or even simply... Read More
We’ve All Got to be Winners—Not a Bad Humanist Slogan
Two authors (one who writes about physics, the other on issues of gender and race), a trans activist, an environmentalist, and a couple of... Read More
CHURCH & STATE | Values Void: How the Religious Right Learned to Love Sex Offenders
After the infamous Access Hollywood audiotape emerged in October 2016 on which Donald Trump boasts about how easy it is to sexually assault women... Read More
HUMANISM 101 | Racism by Numbers and the Battle Ahead
Overt racism, nativism, loss of compassion, and hate speech are on the rise. All of our highest humanist values are under attack. Racial fear... Read More
PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | Life’s a Bitch: An Atheistic Theology of Grace
“Life’s a bitch, and then you die.” At least, that’s the gospel according to acclaimed rapper Nas. I can’t remember the circumstances that placed... Read More
INSIDE THE WALLS | By Any Other Name
"Of all the practices that dehumanize prisoners, calling them “one who offends” is by far the worst. It sets the tone and is a... Read More
