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

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

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

“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