Dance with the Donald What Evangelicals’ Infatuation with Trump Portends for Religion in America

by Clay Farris Naff

With Donald J. Trump in the White House, conservative white evangelicals have never had it so good. Trump picked one of their own as... Read More

Target Practice Troubled Teens, First Person Shooter Games, and the US Military

by Pat Elder

Before Nikolas Cruz shot seventeen people dead and injured seventeen others at a Parkland, 
Florida, high school on Valentine’s Day, and before Dimitrios Pagourtzis... Read More

Respecting Religion, Rejecting Discrimination Does SCOTUS decision manage to have its cake and eat it too?

by Isabelle Oldfield

In a 7-2 ruling issued June 4, 2018, the US Supreme Court found in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd.,... Read More

Golden’s Rule/Godwin’s Law

by Morgan Driscoll

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... Read More

Why “Five Fierce Humanists”? A Comment on White Supremacy and the “Movement”

by Sikivu Hutchinson

Several months ago, after seeing issue after issue of the Humanist magazine with white folks on the cover, I approached editor Jennifer Bardi with... Read More

Beethoven and His Ninth Symphony

by Daniel Thomas Moran

Ludwig van Beethoven began his life at an enormous disadvantage, being born some fourteen years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In that year of 1770,... Read More

Threads of Humanist History

by Michael Werner

History sometimes creeps quietly into the present, as little-known events in the past can have a huge influence today. Despite our small numbers, humanists... Read More