Local Humanist Chapters Celebrate the Holidays
HumanLight, celebrated on December 23, is a time for celebration and community for those who wish to affirm the positive values of humanism. With... Read More
The Humanist Membership Gap: Ideas on Effectively Reaching Out to New Nontheists
By Mike Steiner According to various recent surveys, nontheists comprise about 15% of Americans, equivalent to over 35 million people. But when we combine... Read More
Humanist Chapters and Student Groups: How Can We Collaborate?
By Nate Mauger At college campuses around the country, secular students have been mobilizing to plan lively student group discussions on secular issues, organize... Read More
Best of the Hate Mail: Feedback from
By Erin Williamson "Consider Humanism,” the largest and most far-reaching atheist ad campaign ever to launch in the United States, challenged the Religious Right... Read More
First Humanist Community Center Opens in Phoenix
By Susan Sackett The Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix (HSGP) held its first meeting in our newly renovated building in Mesa, Ariz. on December... Read More
What Next for Gay Marriage?
Voters here in Wisconsin passed a ban on same-sex marriage in the fall of 2006. The following morning, I thoughtlessly tried to console a... Read More
The Nature of Great Coincidences
When I was at university my friend Bruno claimed to have the ideal pickup line. He’d approach a woman in a bar and say... Read More
Plato, Romance, and Self-Inquiry
If philosophy has all along proclaimed the unexamined life to be not worth living, it seems not yet to have grasped that the unloving... Read More
Pastors & Politics Why is the IRS letting tax-exempt churches play politics?
Speaking to his congregation at Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, in September, Pastor Paul Blair proclaimed himself a “God-fearing Oklahoman” and a “patriotic... Read More
Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A progressive Christian response
More often than not, conservatives represent the internal Christian debate over the ethics of homosexuality as if it were between those who hold firm... Read More
