The Ethical Dilemma: Can I Be Scientific, Humanistic, and Christian?
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
Humanist Voices in Verse: “The Laughter of God”
This week’s poem is by Oriana Ivy. Author of three prize-winning chapbooks, Ivy is a widely published poet and translator. Her work has appeared... Read More
Asylum without God: The Refugee Crisis in Europe
How do we begin to understand the crisis in Europe? Perhaps we should start with understanding the climate problems and political persecution in Syria... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: The Pope vs. Air Conditioning – Part 1
Despite my quite biased view, I show more respect for Pope Francis than a lot of liberal politicians and other talking heads who’ve fallen... Read More
The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 27 The Reformation’s One Good Man: Erasmus of Rotterdam
View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. The Reformation’s One Good Man: Erasmus of Rotterdam For half a millennium (in spite... Read More
Bad Faith: Why the Christian Right’s Homophobia Is Indefensible
As soon as the US Supreme Court decided that denying gay people the right to marry constitutes a “deprivation of liberty” in violation of... Read More
The Pope Effect: Will Francis Bring Nonbelievers to the Catholic Church?
In the lead-up to Pope Francis’s long-awaited visit, not a day seems to go by without a new headline lauding the pontiff for his... Read More
The Humanist Hour #167: Bo and Kim Chat about DragonCon, The Reason Rally, and GMOs!
In this episode, Bo Bennett and Kim Ellington have a casual chat about several topics: some fun, some exciting, and some that can have... Read More
On the Hill: Welcome Back, Congress. Now Get to Work!
The 114th United States Congress has been away on recess for over a month, but they finally return this week with a full schedule... Read More
Religious Exceptionalism and the Law: Kim Davis’s Marriage Equality Protest
UPDATE: Kim Davis was ordered to be released from jail today, September 8, 2015. On Thursday, September 3, Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who... Read More
