The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on May 5, 2014, that local governments can, under certain conditions, open their meetings with prayers—even if those supplications... Read More

What’s it like being a humanist with depression? I’m going to preface this right off the bat by saying: I am not a doctor.... Read More

A college student recently asked me, “How do you humanists know what’s true?” It’s an honest question, not given to simple answers. While individual... Read More

In a recent and highly publicized ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that sectarian prayer may continue to play a ceremonial role in government-sponsored... Read More

The science fiction canon is filled with stories of robots rising up and destroying their human masters. From its beginnings in Frankenstein up through... Read More

THINK YOU'RE not going anywhere when you die? Of course, we all eventually “return” to the earth in one form or another after the... Read More

Last week I attended an event on the release of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) annual report, entitled “15th Anniversary Retrospective:... Read More

The American Humanist Association strongly criticized today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Burwell, which granted... Read More