Ban Cisgender White Men From Public Bathrooms: A Modest Proposal
With all the troubles in the world—radical Islamic terrorism, climate change, Donald Trump—it’s good that the religious right is focused on the biggest existential... Read More
What is a Global Citizenry, and Can It Save Us?
Headlines this past spring claimed that for the first time ever, more than half of poll respondents around the world said they saw themselves... Read More
I Say We All Graduate
It’s graduation season, which means lots of pomp and circumstance (even for my daughter who, believe it or not, just participated in a two-hour... Read More
My Father Asks Me To Go To Church
My Father Asks Me To Go To Church and write the day’s hymn numbers on a sheet of yellow paper. He read about a... Read More
Checking the Privilege of Religious Groups in American Politics
NOW THAT DONALD TRUMP has nailed down the Republican Party’s nomination for president and Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic nominee, we can look... Read More
Secular Grief, and the Loss of Stability and Safety
WHEN SOMEONE WE LOVE DIES, it can intensely undermine our sense of stability and safety. Our lives have been changed forever, generally by forces... Read More
Dodging Dr. Death
I BELONG TO A REALLY exclusive club—but not by choice. Eleven years ago I “escaped” from a hospice program and became one of the... Read More
Who Comes First, People or the Planet?
HUMANISM HAS BEEN labeled by some as anthropocentric and given to speciesism, the belief that human beings are set apart and should be valued... Read More
EXCERPT: A Religion Called Love
Adored by her twenty young students, Kathryn James is a young kindergarten teacher whose good intentions were never meant to be controversial—yet controversy follows... Read More
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist
BOOK BY LARRY A. TAUNTON THOMAS NELSON, 2016 224 PP.; $24.99 (KINDLE $12.99) What would it take to convince you that prolific atheist Christopher... Read More
