Last week James Carroll wrote a sensitive piece in the New Yorker (“The Radical Meaning of Pope Francis's Visit to Juarez”) about the testy... Read More

The American Humanist Association has a track record of being on the right side of history. It’s always been a strong supporter of women’s... Read More

Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this week's show, Stephanie Zvan introduces interviewer Peggy Knudtson, and Peggy and Jenn Wilson... Read More

Darwin’s conceptualization of the tree of life (which developed into the phylogenetic trees biologists use today) often seems to present evolution as smooth lines... Read More

The Center for Freethought Equality (CFE), the 501(c)(4) lobbying organization of the American Humanist Association, is pleased to introduce its new PAC Coordinator, Ron... Read More

Humanism has long been one of the most important progressive forces in the development of world culture. It has always championed reason and argued... Read More

While the New Atheist movement isn’t, and has never been, a monolithic phenomenon, its primary motivating idea can be reduced to a single statement,... Read More

"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

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

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