As I reflect on the 76th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association, held June 8-11 in Charleston, South Carolina, I keep returning to a conversation I had with Conor Robinson, projects director with the... Read More

Previous exercises in this series can be found here. Readers may still contribute their responses. Exercise #3. What You See Is What You Are For me, images can be as powerful as words, sometimes even... Read More

Last week I attended the Secular Coalition for America’s Lobby Day and Secular Values Summit on Capitol Hill. This event is a great opportunity for humanists, atheists, agnostics, and nontheists to come to Congress and... Read More

On Monday, June 5, I started my first day at the American Humanist Association in Washington, DC, as the summer editorial intern for the Humanist magazine. On Wednesday, June 7 I flew out to Charleston,... Read More

In last week’s Exercise #2 we asked where, as a nonbeliever, you find purpose and a sense of morality and about what moves you. The response was immense. Here we present a dozen reader responses.... Read More

While some form of nontheism is a necessary condition of humanism, it isn’t sufficient. And for a long time Bill Gates’s putative nontheistic personal philosophy hasn’t seemed sufficient in the light of a number of... Read More

After hearing reports of the explosion in Manchester last night, like many people my reaction was “not again.” No doubt extensive media coverage would focus on the “responsibility” of moderate Muslims to contribute more to... Read More