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

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

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, 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

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

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

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