I USED TO SCOFF when I heard sports commentators glorify a team’s supporters by saying things like, “Football is a religion for [team name... Read More

My mother was a fan of Simon and Garfunkel, and I grew up hearing a lot of their music. I came to appreciate the... Read More

What makes a human life valuable? That’s a huge question, obviously, and not one that’s going to be settled in a magazine column. I... Read More

Until I was nine, the church we attended was forty-five minutes away; we went twice every Sunday, so altogether that was three hours spent... Read More

BOOK BY MATT TAIBBI SPIEGEL & GRAU (2017) 336 PP.; $28.00 (HARDCOVER) $14.99 (KINDLE) With the title, I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay... Read More

BOOK BY HERB SILVERMAN PITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2017 264PP.; $15.95 Humanists know Herb Silverman well. He is a past board member of the American Humanist... Read More

Well, I’ll be damned. Alabama elected Democrat Doug Jones to the US Senate and sent the awful Roy Moore and his pistol packing. So... Read More

From an editorial internship with the Humanist magazine to becoming the development & communications director and senior editor of TheHumanism.com, I worked for the... Read More

More than 64,000 people died of drug overdoses in the United States in 2016. Let’s put that in perspective. According to the Centers for... Read More

In a recent Atlantic article titled "Why Democrats Must Regain the Trust of Religious Voters," author Michael Wear makes the well-worn argument that the... Read More