He dared to question God’s existence. His tweets did not go unnoticed. Now, an unidentified twenty-eight-year-old Saudi man faces $5,330 in fines, ten years... Read More

When you consider the names on the list of recipients of the Humanist of the Year award, and the contributions that these individuals have... Read More

ROY S. MOORE, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has lost his job—again. This is cause for celebration. It means that we may... Read More

NIKI MASSEY DIED on October 1, 2016, at the age of thirty-five. Chances are good you don’t know who Niki Massey was, that you... Read More

A YOUNG WOMAN in a self-management and recovery training (SMART) meeting I coordinate asked me how anything could go right for her when she... Read More

We are grateful to be In a universe in which stars Are born and over time will die Giving forth the elements of everything.... Read More

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One of the leading arguments for the existence of supernatural power is sometimes called the “argument from miracles.” There are many reports of phenomena... Read More

Life is a terminal condition and death never takes a holiday, except that Terry Pratchett’s character named Death did once take a holiday (alas,... Read More

When 5 percent of the US population owns 63 percent of the country’s wealth and the bottom 40 percent of the population has none,... Read More