THE PRAYERS of the religious right appeared to have been answered on Election Day when Donald Trump, who vowed to defend “our Christian heritage,”... Read More

RELIGION IS one of the most powerful forces in human society. Before the rise of the Christian Right in the United States and before... Read More

This article is an excerpt from chapter four of When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer:  Humanism and the Challenge of Race (Pitchstone Publishing, 2017). This... Read More

While the federal government is becoming a follower rather than a leader on climate change, we humanists can fight on the state, local, and... Read More

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION cannot literally err. The ability to make a mistake requires sentience, and evolution is not a sentient process. Hence, the “error” of... Read More

Take out your mobile phone and give it a good look. Curiosity made that. Curiosity coupled with intense concentration, wild imagination, bold hypotheses, and... Read More

“The same exercise (i.e. the study of philosophy) at once teaches to live well and to die well.” – Epicurus, Epistle to Menoeceus The Seventh Annual... Read More

EARLY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY, the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued an edict barring Christians from meeting for worship. Christian scriptures were ordered destroyed, and... Read More

THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE SAYS, “There’s no point in calling my members of Congress, it doesn’t make any difference, I already know how they’re... Read More

I NEVER WANTED TO BE A HUMANIST CELEBRANT until John Forwalter died. John was president of our local humanist chapter, and when he died... Read More