I was raised as a fundamentalist Christian. When I left those beliefs behind I looked for substitute religions, each time choosing one less dogmatic and more freethinking than the last. It never occurred to me... Read More

Opportunities for local activism are easy to find these days, and while our plates are already brimming with important work that keeps our organizations thriving, it is rare when an opportunity comes along that requires... Read More

Many people would agree that young minds are impressionable. And while gruesome images of dead human fetuses are likely to upset anyone forced to look at them, the religious right is explicitly using these images... Read More

The Fourth of July is a holiday all Americans can appreciate, regardless of religious loyalty. It is a day we remember our independence from the grips of the monarch-led British Empire. Although the holiday was... Read More

On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Burwell, which granted closely held, for-profit corporations a special religious exemption from covering certain forms of birth control... Read More

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

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