You Say You Have a Resolution…

We all want to change the world, as the Beatles song goes. Incidentally, “Revolution” might be my favorite Beatles song, and my favorite lines might be: You say you'll change the Constitution/Well, you know, we... Read More
Shame Isn’t an Education

How did you learn about sex? Were you taught that it’s a natural part of life or that it’s a sin? Did you receive medically accurate information that prepared you to make safe and responsible... Read More
NONEDECISION 2020 | Four Decades of the None Vote

Since 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected, there have been ten presidential elections. According to exit poll data in each of those elections, the majority of nones—people with no religious affiliation—have voted for the... Read More
HUMANIST DILEMMA | Dare I Join the Daughters of the American Revolution?

Not the Daughter They Think I Am: I’ve been looking for the perfect place to voice my concern and think your column may be best. I am an open atheist and humanist chaplain who recently... Read More
More Holiday Humility, Less Hypocritical Hype Reflections on Our Goodwill Season

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all this sad world needs. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American author and poet) There... Read More
Nonedecision 2020: Nones and the Changing Composition of Party Coalitions

In last month’s inaugural Nonedecision 2020 column I focused on the nones—Americans who claim no religious affiliation—and their electoral preferences in presidential elections since 1980. We learned that in the past four decades, at least... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Airing Grievances at a Funeral

Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on the same question. As with our long-running “Humanist Dilemma” column by Joan Reisman-Brill, readers often ask what... Read More