For all our complaining about the religious right’s inappropriate influence in politics and religious conservatives’ attempts to tear down the church-state wall, the secular... Read More

A humanist and an anti-abortion activist walk into a bar…Sounds like the start of a joke, but Abigail Disney’s documentary, The Armor of Light,... Read More

Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Ethical Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Ethical Dilemma). All... Read More

New comics by Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils!              

“Common ground” is a term that gets used a lot and certainly has positive connotations. Of course, what underlies the attempt to find common... Read More

Congress, as usual, is stuck. Despite Republican promises that once they won control of both houses they’d push through all sorts of laws, they’re... Read More

Can we all agree that modern debates are horrible? While in the past they might have been events that focused on policies and ideas,... Read More

Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Bo Bennett interviews Michael Werner about the history of humanism and discuss... Read More

American Humanist Association President Rebecca Hale has a catchy saying to succinctly explain humanism to people who may be sympathetic to the lifestance but... Read More

The prospects of secular humanists who hold to positive, progressive, nontheistic worldviews are on the rise as the idea of being good without a... Read More