Flourishing in the Company of Like-Minded People

by Rebecca Goldstein, 2011 Humanist of the Year

I WAS, UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY, unaware of the existence of the secular humanist community, organized around the values of rationality, free inquiry, and the... Read More

Compelling Optimism

by William F. Schulz, 2000 Humanist of the Year

"HOW CAN YOU STAND IT?" The young woman appeared to be on the brink of tears but there was anger in her voice too.... Read More

Why the Humanist Magazine Matters

(Please see AHA’s statement on sexual harassment allegations against Dr. Krauss here.) I FRANKLY ADMIT that when I first learned the Humanist magazine and... Read More

How Much Tolerance is Tolerable? The danger, disservice, and dishonesty of equating tolerance for people of differing faith with tolerance for religious beliefs and ideas

by Marius Nistor

In the past two months alone, an abhorrent wave of terror has taken the lives of hundreds of people and left thousands feeling devastated.... Read More

My Conversion

by Barbara G. Walker

In Their Own Words: Humanists Discuss Their Paths to Humanism I WAS SIX YEARS OLD and stricken with grief over the recent death of... Read More