Canticle of Midnights
For James and Lydia on the occasion of their wedding Someday you might realize that you barely noticed all the midnights that shuttled by,... Read More
Twelve Steps to Nowhere? The Sobering Truth about Alcoholics Anonymous
Every now and then, attorneys at Americans United for Separation of Church and State will receive a call or an email from a person... Read More
Should We Care What Other People Think?
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” —Lao Tzu In modern American culture—and in many cultures in many... Read More
Smart Thinking The Humanist Approach to Addiction and Our Heritage in Psychology
JUST ABOUT EVERY WEEK for the past twenty-five years you could (and still can) find me volunteering to help those with addictions by offering... Read More
The Humanist Interview with Naomi Oreskes Applied Science and the Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes is a professor of the history of science and an affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. She is... Read More
Film Review: Merchants of Doubt
DOCUMENTARY WRITTEN BY ROBERT KENNER AND KIM ROBERTS; DIRECTED BY ROBERT KENNER SONY PICTURES CLASSICS (2014) (USA) 93 MINUTES; PG-13 An outraged man goes to... Read More
Out of Place A Boulder Church’s Path toward Denominational Realignment
IN MARCH, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country with 1.8 million members, announced it would start allowing its ministers... Read More
Self-Management & Recovery Training A SMART Humanistic Approach to Addiction Recovery
“The best antidotes to addiction are joy and competence—joy as the capacity to take pleasure in the people, activities, and things that are available... Read More
Whose Pleasure? Whose Pain? Applying the Hedonic Calculus to Public Policy
“We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent,... Read More
Who Says Body Painting and Lingerie Parties Aren’t Divine? Property Tax Exemptions Should Apply to All Churches (or Better Yet, None)
The religious right ought to be up in arms over the latest government assault on the free exercise of religion. Last week in Panama... Read More