Tacos & Tolerance
It was nearly dinnertime on one of the last days of summer break. I’d promised my daughter—just ten days shy of turning seven—that we... Read More
Think Denmark
“The good life is one guided by reason and motivated by love.” —Bertrand Russell We all know that discourse in the United States today... Read More
YES AND MAYBE
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Savior? Shaman? Myth? Ink Blot? Why Christianity's Main Man Remains so Elusive
DURING A DECIDEDLY staid Presbyterian wedding ceremony some years back, I passed the time reading the Gospel of Matthew from the Bible sitting before... Read More
Getting Humanism Right-Side Up A Reality-Based “Mattering Map” and Alternative Humanist Manifesto
WHAT IS HUMANISM? Some say it’s a godless worldview, a philosophy free of supernaturalism. But humanism is both more and less than that. More,... Read More
BOOK EXCERPT: “The Boomer Factor” from Fighting Back the Right
"If boomers had marched for peace or civil rights (and bear in mind that many didn’t), those days of saving the world were over—now... Read More
Is Dying a Pro-Choice Issue? The Right-to-Die Movement Gains National Attention
“In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal... Read More
The Interstellar Stakes Against God Global Warming Hardly a Ringing Endorsement for an Architect
Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that something like the doomsday scenario depicted in Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Interstellar, were actually to take... Read More
Who Deserves Compassion?
Considerations on the Eve of a Terrorist’s Trial The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is scheduled to begin in January, a year and nine months... Read More
A Watershed Moment for Death with Dignity
MOST OF US don’t choose the time of our death and don’t have any idea when we’ll die. And that’s a good thing. Living... Read More