Hobby Lobby Isn’t About Religion. It’s About Health Care.
The news is abuzz with the Supreme Court's decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. Yesterday’s opinion is generating the immediate and untempered 140-character outrage by the conditioned public response of needing to reply to each... Read More
Our Pragmatist Tradition
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 humanists hold many theories of what’s true, the humanist tradition has... Read More
Nonbelievers Denounce Supreme Court Decision Allowing Special Religious Privileges for Hobby Lobby
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 closely held, for-profit corporations a special religious exemption from covering certain... Read More
Separation of Church and Triathlon
On June 15, 2014, I participated in the 9th annual Heartland Triathlon in Sebring, Florida, a race which requires swimming for a quarter of a mile, biking for 14 miles, and running a 5K. Prior... Read More
The Not-So-Great but Powerful Pseudoscience of Dr. Oz
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” – The Wizard of Oz Last Tuesday, the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection convened a hearing on “Protecting Consumers from False and Deceptive Advertising of Weight-Loss... Read More
A Place at the Podium
In May of last year I attended a rally with my union, the United Federation of Teachers, which is a federation of teachers, nurses, and other professionals working in New York City’s five boroughs. We... Read More
How I Became a Humanist
My name is Chris Campbell. I am twenty-three years old and I have cerebral palsy. I communicate using a computer, typing one letter at a time using a switch I control by moving my head.... Read More