This week kicks off Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the freedom to read that calls attention to books that are frequently challenged... Read More

On Monday, September 14, Ahmed Mohamed, a fourteen-year-old student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was arrested after school officials believed his homemade... Read More

This week’s poem is by Neil Doherty. He is an economist and professor emeritus from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He... Read More

Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Ethical Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Ethical Dilemma). All... Read More

Being Called is an academic collection of essays that attempts to define and explain the experience of a “calling” from scientific, secular, and sacred... Read More

Your faves are back: Jesus and Mo, Raging Pencils, and The Atheist Pig!              

The national media have been buzzing for weeks about Pope Francis’s visit to the United States. Perhaps what has most vividly captured the public’s... Read More

The Alice in Wonderland world of religious legal exemptions took an even stranger turn last month. Two strange turns, in fact, in one case.... Read More

The Air Force Times recently ran an ad signed by forty-five veterans declaring that drone warfare missions violate international law and that drone pilots and support... Read More

[Editor’s note: The views discussed in this article belong to the author and do not represent any official position taken or agreed to by... Read More