Five Fierce Humanists: Unapologetically Black Women Beyond Belief
Introduction by Christopher Cameron IT IS A WELL-KNOWN FACT that black women have served as the backbone of the black church since its inception.... Read More
White Privilege and Humanist Leadership
As progressives, humanists are a feisty, opinionated lot. My new book, The Best of the Humanist: Humanist Philosophy 1928–1973, shows this to be true... Read More
Dance with the Donald What Evangelicals’ Infatuation with Trump Portends for Religion in America
With Donald J. Trump in the White House, conservative white evangelicals have never had it so good. Trump picked one of their own as... Read More
Theocratic Mercenary Erik Prince and the Christian Right
President Donald Trump’s election allowed the Christian right to achieve a new level of domination in the US government. Since the 1960s, the Christian... Read More
The Humanist Interview with Greg Epstein
GREG M. EPSTEIN has been the humanist chaplain at Harvard since 2005, where he also serves on the executive committee of the thirty-five-member corps... Read More
Target Practice Troubled Teens, First Person Shooter Games, and the US Military
Before Nikolas Cruz shot seventeen people dead and injured seventeen others at a Parkland, Florida, high school on Valentine’s Day, and before Dimitrios Pagourtzis... Read More
Respecting Religion, Rejecting Discrimination Does SCOTUS decision manage to have its cake and eat it too?
In a 7-2 ruling issued June 4, 2018, the US Supreme Court found in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd.,... Read More
Golden’s Rule/Godwin’s Law
GOLDEN’S RULE Godwin’s Law* IT SEEMS THAT, Our thoughts aren’t quite the same, my brother. OUR SOURCES ARE DIFFERENT SO You may be... Read More
Why “Five Fierce Humanists”? A Comment on White Supremacy and the “Movement”
Several months ago, after seeing issue after issue of the Humanist magazine with white folks on the cover, I approached editor Jennifer Bardi with... Read More
Betsy DeVos Wants You to Pay for Someone Else’s Religion
President Donald Trump’s cabinet is full of men and women who simply aren’t qualified to do the jobs they’ve been assigned. Nowhere is this... Read More