What a Secular Monument Looks Like
What do war memorials look like and what do they symbolize? What shapes do they take, and whom do they represent? AS PHYSICAL STRUCTURES... Read More
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