“Thoughts and prayers” can seem lovely if one is looking for emotional or spiritual support after a shooting. But to actually end gun violence—which... Read More

The South Asian country of Bangladesh, which sits to the east of India and the west of Myanmar, is one on the most densely... Read More

po·et·ry noun Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and... Read More

In Genesis 1:29 God says, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it." But according to Tadeusz Pacholczyk, an ethicist and... Read More

Wedding season is beginning here in Minnesota as the snow melts and temperatures rise. As a humanist celebrant, I collaborate with couples seeking a... Read More

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party’s legislative arm is largely complete (except for Senate leadership, which remains firmly under the control of uber-survivor... Read More

Once A Jew: Although I was raised in a nominally Jewish family, I began rejecting religion when I was about eleven and stopped participating in... Read More

By now, plenty of us have seen the almost endless documentation in the media of the effects our plastic reliance has had on oceans:... Read More

Washington, DC, lost a cable television station last week when “RT America,” a Russian government funded operation, went dark (though it remains available via... Read More

Wild, Wild County, the six-part Netflix documentary series, is much like its main character, Ma Anand Sheela: dark, complicated, multi-layered, and mysterious. On one... Read More