What Are We Doing about Climate Change? Obstacles, Opportunities, and Legislative Action
The Threat OVER SEVEN BILLION human beings are dumping more than thirty gigatons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere every year. Despite... Read More
From the Slaughter Vonnegut on War and the Book That Made Him Famous
KURT VONNEGUT, age twenty-two, was in a meat locker deep underground with several dozen fellow American prisoners of war, a few guards, and scores... Read More
Lots of Love: Exploring Polyamory in Portland
FROM HBO’s popular polygamist drama Big Love to Showtime’s two-season reality show Polyamory: Married & Dating, tales of copulating outside of coupledom offer a... Read More
BOOK EXCERPT | Nick Meets Earl
The following is an adapted excerpt from The Church of Exemptions: A Farce with Footnotes by Luis Granados (Humanist Press, February 25, 2019). The... Read More
Learning Right from Wrong: How to Teach the Bible in Public Schools
“Exposure to the Bible has an almost magical influence against crime and the moral/ethical slide of our youth and our nation,” wrote Dr. Robert... Read More
Slavery Was Once for Many a “Sincerely Held Belief”
When the editor of this publication reached out to inquire if she could publish a version of my letter to the editor of my... Read More
The Winter of Our Cross Dissent
As I write we are eight days away from oral arguments in Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, in which... Read More
CHURCH & STATE | “Biblical Literacy” Is the Last Thing the Religious Right Wants to See in Public Schools
Certain ideas sound half decent at first glance, but when you take a closer look, turn out not to be so great. Consider “Bible... Read More
PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | An Atheist with a Tall Hat On: The Forgotten History of Agnosticism
One sometimes gets the impression that religious and nonreligous people alike consider agnosticism a more rational and sophisticated creed than atheism. On the contrary,... Read More
FIRST PERSON | Who Moved My Child?
In 1998 Dr. Spencer Johnson published a small book titled, Who Moved My Cheese? Simply written, the book was meant to guide and support... Read More