The science fiction canon is filled with stories of robots rising up and destroying their human masters. From its beginnings in Frankenstein up through... Read More

THINK YOU'RE not going anywhere when you die? Of course, we all eventually “return” to the earth in one form or another after the... Read More

Last week I attended an event on the release of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) annual report, entitled “15th Anniversary Retrospective:... Read More

The American Humanist Association strongly criticized today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Burwell, which granted... 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

This week’s poem is by Steven Zimmerman. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1942, graduated from college in 1963, and served in... Read More

Your favorites are back! New comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!              

John Shelby Spong, retired bishop of the Episcopal Church from New Jersey, once stated: I look at the twentieth century, which in many ways... Read More

Sociologist Robert Merton first popularized the concept of “The Law of Unintended Consequences” back in the 1930s—the idea that purposeful intervention in a complex... Read More