I Testified Against “In God We Trust” in Alabama. Then Came the Death Threats.
On June 19, 2014, I coordinated the delivery of public testimony before the Mobile, Alabama, County Commission against a resolution to display a plaque with the motto "In God We Trust" in Mobile Government Plaza.... Read More
How Hedonistic is Humanism?
To commentators on Fox News, this is a no-brainer: humanism is completely hedonistic. Assuming some sort of ultimate moral authority, pundits from Bill O’Reilly to Glenn Beck to Sean Hannity to Ann Coulter to Rush... Read More
Sacrilegious Selfies: Is Taking Photos at “Sacred” Places Inappropriate?
Do you think it’s inappropriate to take a selfie at places thought by most people to be somehow sacred? Read the article and take our poll below. Earlier this year Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary announced that... Read More
A Different Fight for Marriage Equality A humanist celebrant helps a couple say “I do” and the court says “No, you don’t”
On Monday, March 24, 2014, I received a phone call from a woman seeking a humanist wedding officiant. It was a pleasant surprise and a good way to start the week. She told me about... Read More
Carroll County: A Small Maryland Community Gets Big Attention for All the Wrong Reasons
Carroll County, Maryland, a mostly white, middle-to-lower class area northeast of Baltimore, has been getting a notable volume of media coverage over the past year. This rural wonderland of pickup trucks, country music, and cookie-cutter... Read More
Why the Way We Live is More Important
I was nine when my mom beamed at my fifth-grade teacher and told him he was the best Christian she'd ever known. Except, of course, that he wasn't; Mr. Goldstein was Jewish. Though she'd die... Read More
An Invocation for Everyone: What the Secular Invocation in Greece, N.Y., Means for Humanists
With a population of about 96,000, the town of Greece, New York, is hardly the sort of place one would expect to make national news. But this suburb outside of Rochester did in May, when... Read More
