At a summit of Nobel Peace award winners in Warsaw, Polish Nobel Peace laureate Lech Walesa called for a “secular Ten Commandments,” a guide... Read More

Humanists Doing Good (HDG) is a young Chapter of the American Humanist Association (AHA) based in Grand Junction, Colorado. We have been busy carrying... Read More

A new episode of The Humanist Hour is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guest on this month's show. In... Read More

I sometimes have the impression that philosophers write books mainly for each other. Not so Daniel Dennett, whose latest book is aimed at ordinary... Read More

In The Selfish Gene (1976) Richard Dawkins proposed the term “meme” as a unit of cultural transmission analogous to the gene, in that both... Read More

I’d like to sit down next to the old man on the bench in the shopping mall— the one judging the crowd as he... Read More

An abscess in the tooth or colon curls one inward as salt poured upon a snail. And so does grief; grief is an oozing,... Read More

Atch-ooo!!! I tend to sneeze like a grenade went off inside my face; it’s sudden, it’s noisy, and it’s extremely alarming.  (And don’t even... Read More

A lot of atheists, humanists, and other nonbelievers are leery or dismissive of meditation and mindfulness. Some see it as an irretrievably religious or... Read More

For some reason the Jehovah’s Witnesses like to work my neighborhood. It’s not uncommon for me to come home at night and see a... Read More