HUMANIST DILEMMA | What Do You Do When Someone Asks to Launch Lunch with Prayer?
Mind If I Pray? I know someone who, when she attends luncheons (both business and social), always announces she is a Christian and then asks people around her, “Would you be offended if I pray... Read More
Join Us at the 2020 World Humanist Congress
Every three years, humanists from around the globe gather in a different city to participate in the World Humanist Congress (WHC), hosted by Humanists International and one of their member organizations. Next year, the American... Read More
Mexico’s Muxes: Body and Politics
Spanish is a grammatically gendered language non-native to the lands that its country of origin colonized, including the Caribbean and South America. Colonialist Catholicism reshaped many Indigenous cultures, including applying the more rigid and westernized... Read More
Imagine No Corruption
Musings on the Trump-Nixon connection on John Lennon’s 79th birthday John Lennon—beloved by so many, and particularly by humanists for his song "Imagine"—would have turned seventy-nine today. A year after his eponymously titled album came... Read More
The Human Cost of the Law: LGBTQ+ Employment Discrimination at the Supreme Court
Today, in what will surely be one of the most discussed days of the 2019 term, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in three cases concerning the scope of Title VII’s prohibition against workplace... Read More
Achieving Democracy
Americans today are thwarted on many fronts from achieving true democracy for all. Paramount are questions about the behavior of the commander in chief, whose actions threaten our very democracy and the very rule of... Read More
Direct Action, Direct Results
In February 2017, workers around the United States participated in a day-long strike, “A Day Without Immigrants,” to showcase their contributions to society in the face of anti-immigration actions being taken or proposed by the... Read More