We’re pleased to welcome two new staffers to the American Humanist Association’s headquarters in Washington DC! Rachael Berman is the Grassroots and Celebrant Coordinator,... Read More

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

This week’s poem is by HNN’s Poetry Editor Daniel Thomas Moran. Daniel Thomas Moran served as Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York from... Read More

Your favorites are back! New comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!

The knowledge we’ve gleaned from science has shrunk the remaining possible realm of deities to the infinitesimal. Religionists have responded by arguing that omnipotent... Read More

As handsome, beloved Amos lay dying, Daisy did her best to make him comfortable. Daisy seemed to grasp Amos’s situation and, being part of... Read More

In the last decade we have allowed the primary interest of dignity and the human element in humanism to be slowly superseded by a... Read More

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the elites of Europe and the United States were thrilled by what they perceived as a rather sophisticated... Read More

When my dad, Neil Swanson, goes to rallies against the tar sands pipeline, people rush up to him and thank him for everything he’s... Read More

Chris Stedman, who is the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University, intrigued me when we would meet at Harvard Humanist events. Stedman’s position as... Read More