Religious Freedom Under Threat
This week, I attended a meeting at the US State Department with a coalition of religious and nontheistic advocacy groups that are concerned about the current state of international religious freedom. The coalition met with... Read More
Religion of Sports: Exploring Parallels between American Institutions
This November, NFL quarterback Tom Brady and Hall-of-Famer Michael Strahan will bring a new television series into your home. The show, Religion of Sports, aims to celebrate the profound spiritual influence of sports within our... Read More
Congress, Graded by Their Values
The recent congressional scorecard released by the Center for Freethought Equality, the advocacy and political arm of the American Humanist Association, identifies our allies in the US Congress who support issues important to the secular... Read More
The Call of the Rewild
Seventeen thousand years ago, Stone Age artists painted numerous beautiful pictures on rock walls of wild, cattle-like creatures called aurochs, indicating they must have been very important to the lives of our ancestors. Although these... Read More
You Can’t Make Change If You Don’t Show Up
By now, virtually everyone is familiar with the term “Black Lives Matter,” whether they understand or agree with its purpose or not. The Black Lives Matter hashtag and corresponding movement opposing widespread racial imbalances have... Read More
What Do Humanists Make of the Burkini Ban?
Last week French police cited a Muslim woman for wearing a hijab on a beach in Nice, France, and ordered her to remove her headscarf, marking the latest incident in a clash over religious freedom,... Read More
Salary History Doesn’t Equal My Worth!
Let's say you take a job right out of college while you're deciding whether you can afford graduate school or not. The work is engaging, but the pay is low. Still, you figure it's worthwhile... Read More