Confronting Whiteness and the Flint Water Crisis
"We need to teach students to read and write, but we also need to study our cities and our neighborhoods, especially when they are... Read More
Book Excerpt: White Nights, Black Paradise
On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, a multiracial church with Pentecostal origins, died in a Guyana jungle settlement named... Read More
A Minister’s Lack of Faith Comes Under Fire
SEVEN YEARS after the United Church of Canada minister Gretta Vosper penned With or Without God (Harper Collins, 2008), the UCC chose to examine... Read More
Finding Empathy in the Evolution Debate
This past December resolutions were introduced in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to designate February 12 Darwin Day, in recognition... Read More
Infected with Dogma: How South America’s Response to the Zika Virus Fails Women
Seemingly overnight, a virus once previously thought to be mild has received national attention and elicited warnings from international organizations. Spreading now across more... Read More
Deep Ecology, Humanism, and the Hidden Life of Trees
I'VE LONG BEEN what the author of this issue’s cover story and other animal welfare advocates would call a human speciesist. This means that... Read More
Born Again
Well then, it’s settled. There will be no death for you who have accepted fiction over fact and value culture over the cultivation of... Read More
Will a Legal Clash over Old Auto Tires Run Over the First Amendment?
A DISPUTE OVER A RECYCLED TIRE program in Missouri could erode the wall of separation between church and state and compel millions of Americans... Read More
Saying the Right Thing, Even in Private
(Note: contains ethnic and ableist slurs) IT CAN BE A TRICKY BALANCE to say the right thing. There are things I say in private,... Read More
A New Humanist Take on the Emerging Vocabulary of Romance, Gender, and Sexuality
I COULD IDENTIFY AS demi-romantic, demi-sexual, cisgender, non-monogamous and pan-erotic. Or I could just identify as myself. However, it seems that finding new words... Read More
