A Message to State and Local Officials: Be Reasonable! Humanist Groups Raise Awareness of National Day of Reason by Pushing for Official Proclamations
In response to the National Day of Prayer, held annually since 1952 on the first Thursday in May, the American Humanist Association and Washington Area Secular Humanists created the National Day of Reason in 2003.... Read More
7 Ways to Celebrate The National Day of Reason
National Day of Reason, held on the first Thursday of May, was created not only to celebrate reason but to inspire the secular community to be visible and active in contrast to the Congressionally-mandated National... Read More
What’s Really Going on With Contraceptives? Supreme Court Hears Hobby Lobby’s Religious Objections to Affordable Care Act
Check out the bottom of this post for photos from today's rally at the Supreme Court. It seems like we keep going round and round on this issue. We know the basic story: religious institutions... Read More
Happy Twentieth!
While reading Stephen Greenblatt’s award-winning book, The Swerve, three years ago, I stumbled on a delightful fact. It seems that devotees of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, for hundreds of years after his death, continued to... Read More
Nuclear Energy without Fear
Today, March 11, marks the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that led to the disaster at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Complex in Japan. On this occasion many are looking back at what happened and... Read More
Wait, You’re an Atheist AND a Conservative?
For many people, the idea of a conservative atheist seems like an oxymoron. One explanation could be that we mostly see popular atheist activists speaking out politically over progressive issues like marriage equality or abortion... Read More
Who Wants to Be a Rocket Scientist? Race, Gender, and the STEM Divide
