Please welcome the newest addition to the American Humanist Association staff, Staff Attorney Katherine Paige! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I... Read More

It’s almost September, which means that members of Congress are finally coming back to DC after a month’s recess spent meeting with constituents back... 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

Former House Speaker Tip O’Neill used to say that “all politics is local.” So are most concerns about religious privilege, especially when communities become... Read More

Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Kim Ellington speaks with Certified Forensic Examiner Derek Ellington on a host... Read More

WHEN I WAS ASKED to speak in Denver at the American Humanist Association annual conference earlier this year, I was very flattered, and a... Read More

HUMANISTS EXPECT their heroes to be positive. That’s what humanism is, after all—a positive morality that launches off the negation of belief; an actively... Read More

ON THE NIGHT of January 30, 1873, in his home at 17 Heriot Row in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson told his parents that... Read More

How much better would the Bible be if the poet voice had won out over the priestly? In the summer of 1957, fresh out... Read More

ON THE MONDAY following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 26, 2015, decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (that removed legal restrictions against same-sex marriage), Earl... Read More