Fasten Your Seatbelts, It’s Going to be a Trumpy Ride
LET’S BE HONEST, thus far the Trump era has been a nightmare for humanist values. Tolerance? Not a lot. Truth? Apparently that one’s subjective.... Read More
Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
BOOK BY LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016 360 PP.; $35.00 WHAT INITIALLY DREW ME to read Village Atheists was curiosity about life... Read More
Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life without Religion
BOOK EDITED BY KAREN L GARST PRITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2016 272 PP.; $16.95 IN 2014 THE ARTS and crafts chain Hobby Lobby fought to exclude... Read More
The Kingstone Bible
BOOKS EDITED BY ART A. AYRIS KINGSTONE COMICS, 2016 2,053 PP. IN THREE VOLUMES, $74.99 ONE OF MY CHILDHOOD memories of United Presbyterian Sunday... Read More
On the Hill: Darwin Day Resolution Introduced in Congress
These days it feels like the only news that comes out of Congress is about discriminating against religious minorities, cutting benefits for vulnerable communities,... Read More
The Humanist Dilemma: Can We Ever Pay People Who Clean up after Us Enough?
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All... Read More
The Comics Section: “Freedom” of Religion, Conservative Math, and Birds Who Sow
New comics by Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils!
Protecting Protest
Protesting has long been a common form of resistance, and lately in the United States we’ve seen popular protests against police violence, pipeline construction,... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: The Case against Gorsuch
Senate Democrats are in hand-wringing mode over what to do about the Neil Gorsuch nomination to the US Supreme Court. As usual, much of... Read More
The Susceptible Mind: How the Internet Enables Hard Hearts and Soft Heads
It's getting late and the crowded bar is starting to thin out. I have a half-drunken glass of beer in front of me that’s... Read More
