Check out what staffers at the American Humanist Association are watching in their free time! Also be sure to check out what we're reading... Read More

This article is part of Carl Coon’s ongoing “A Short History of Evolution” series. Click here to read all entries in this series. During... Read More

Chaplaincy is a very personal “calling” for me that began in the early 1980s, rooted in an ethical stance of compassion, love, respect, and... Read More

Last week the Pew Research Group reported that the number of stay-at-home mothers is increasing in the United States, rising from 23 percent in... Read More

On March 14, 2013, a 63-year-old atheist writer named Aleksandr Kharlamov was arrested in his hometown of Ridder in the east region of Kazakhstan... Read More

A bill recently filed in Louisiana would make the Bible that state’s official book. Not any Bible, mind you, but their oldest edition of... Read More

This is your time. If, like me, you believe that nature operates according to discoverable laws and chance, without the slightest regard for human... 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 Daniel Thomas Moran, TheHumanist.com poetry editor, retired dentist and Boston University Assistant Professor, former Poet Laureate of Suffolk County,... Read More

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