I've spent nine years inside the gig economy. I write from home in rural West Virginia, a place where factory jobs disappeared long ago and this new way of working arrived like the only option... Read More

Now and then, people contemplate imponderable questions such as: What is consciousness? What existed before the Big Bang? Or, what came first – the chicken or the egg? Another such question could easily be: What... Read More

War in the Middle East is upon us again, it seems. Blame the many men in power in all of the countries involved. The world was taken by surprise when the United States and Israel... Read More

Children are not chattel. Nor are they “mere creatures of the state,” as the Supreme Court of the United States held in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925). They are, in the humanist tradition, autonomous... Read More

I conclude as a humanist, and I’m sure many of you will agree, that empathy isn’t a fault of personality and compassion for others and the planet isn’t a defect in one’s perspective. While the... Read More

Most of the ethical debates I grew up hearing were colossal: war, climate disaster, reproductive rights, guns. They felt too vast to touch, as if morality only lived in rooms with microphones. But lately I’ve... Read More

In the past fifteen years since my deconversion, I’ve had many conversations with many followers across a spectrum of denominations. Despite these conversations rarely turning overtly hostile, there were always implicit assumptions about my motivations... Read More