“The same exercise (i.e. the study of philosophy) at once teaches to live well and to die well.” – Epicurus, Epistle to Menoeceus The Seventh Annual... Read More

EARLY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY, the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued an edict barring Christians from meeting for worship. Christian scriptures were ordered destroyed, and... Read More

THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE SAYS, “There’s no point in calling my members of Congress, it doesn’t make any difference, I already know how they’re... Read More

I NEVER WANTED TO BE A HUMANIST CELEBRANT until John Forwalter died. John was president of our local humanist chapter, and when he died... Read More

Today (June 1) marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, widely regarded as one of the greatest albums... Read More

AS AN ENGAGED CITIZEN and member of the freethought community, you know the importance of being active in the electoral process. You’re an informed... Read More

THE SOFTCOVER BOOK, given to me at age thirteen, was called Ten Rungs by Martin Buber. The philosophical sayings were different from the philosophy... Read More

I doubt the words “college” and “heaven” have ever been intertwined in this magazine. (You may recall your college days as halcyon but humanists... Read More

Taxonomists have described more than a million species ... divided into more than twenty phyla. Of this plethora, vertebrates represent only part of one... Read More

Growing up in another valley so far away as to be a different country—growing taller and growing leaner but somehow never wiser—between mountains the... Read More