How Weird Is Katharine Hayhoe’s Climate Science?
I’ve always been genuinely impressed with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe’s calm and reasoned approach to explaining the science of climate change—or as she calls it, “global weirding.” Weather patterns are indeed getting strange, like a record-setting... Read More
Relax, Studying Theology Doesn’t Make You Religious It may even enhance your humanism
Fall welcomes a new semester at Meadville Lombard Theological School (MLTS), where the American Humanist Association (AHA) Center for Education will be offering two of its four graduate-level courses in humanism. Earlier this month, criticism... Read More
Technology Is a Human Right So let’s make sure everyone can use it
In today’s COVID-19 world, everything is digital. Happy hours are now 5 p.m. Zoom calls, first-time dates are on FaceTime, four-year-olds are learning the ABCs from an iPad. This is an incredibly common topic of... Read More
The Further Erosion of Environmental Protection
“Oh, beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain. For strip-mined mountain’s majesty, above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, and hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Converting Away My Sense of Self
Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on reader questions. Because while humanists are committed to being good without a god, sometimes they need a little advice on how... Read More
Seeing Humanist Values in the House’s Climate Plan
At the beginning of 2020, no one could have envisioned how these past seven months would have unfolded: a pandemic that abruptly took away any sense of normalcy from our lives and has snowballed into... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Bolster the Bubble or Pop It?
Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on reader questions. Because while humanists are committed to being good without a god, sometimes they need a little advice on how... Read More