What really grabs me about religious practice are the certain results we see. Prayer is answered in powerful and reliable ways. Relics import special... Read More

In 2008, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a survey on America’s religious landscape, and for the first time, the research... Read More

Uranus is a really weird planet in our solar system. Yet, it is also an archetypal planet among the many recently discovered exoplanets (planets... Read More

Today the American Humanist Association launched a national campaign to encourage people to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance until the phrase “under God”... Read More

New comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!              

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

Amy Monsky is the president of Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, an organization of atheists, agnostics, and other freethinkers centered in the Charleston area... Read More

The Knick is a new Cinemax original series that tells the story of the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York circa 1900. The location is... Read More

What a summer. The worst of human nature is bustin’ out all over. Just when you thought the Middle East couldn’t get any worse,... Read More

For long-suffering USA men’s sports fans, the FIBA Basketball World Cup comes at an opportune moment. Forget needing to content ourselves with the “moral... Read More