This is the third in a series of articles this month about alcohol and addiction that are part of the American Humanist Association’s Dry January Challenge. New Year's resolutions have been a thing as far... Read More

This is the second in a series of articles this month about alcohol and addiction that are part of the American Humanist Association’s Dry January Challenge. I used to think I had no connection to... Read More

January 22nd marks what would have been the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision being in effect. For nearly half a century, women and people who can become pregnant relied on... Read More

On Monday, January 16th, Humanists will celebrate National Religious Freedom Day. According to BlitzWatch, “Congress designated January 16th as Religious Freedom Day to celebrate the enactment in 1786 of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom,... Read More

Sixteen months ago, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the southern arm of Haiti, decimating the region. Hospitals lay in ruins, unable to treat the 12,000+ people injured in the quake. Hundreds of thousands were left... Read More

Like Blades of the Grass The contemporary American poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer wrote: And if it’s true we are alone, we are alone together, the way blades of grass are alone, but exist as a field. (“Belonging”)... Read More

On that cold November evening, just a day after the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, I stood before hundreds assembled in San Diego, and emceed an anti-hate rally. “I’m done. I’m just done with... Read More