Last Friday, hundreds of thousands of young activists marched in cities around the world—from Kampala, Uganda, to Des Moines, Iowa—demanding crucial action on the climate crisis that experts and scientists have unanimously agreed poses an... Read More

Canonization can do irreparable harm to a person's reputation. What got them notoriety in the first place was their willingness to fight for something, and therefore against something, but canonization requires being for everyone. And... Read More

Separation of Church and State Week is observed annually during the week of Thanksgiving. It's the secular movement’s response to National Bible Week, which kicks off with International Day of the Bible on the Sunday... Read More

In one of the Trump administration’s most daunting and egregious rule change proposals to date, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that it plans to eliminate explicit and necessary anti-discrimination rules... Read More

The weather was none too pleasant for attendees at Tuesday’s Supreme Court rally in support of the immigration policy known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). The rain hitting the faces of young and... Read More

Today we bring you our third 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

I was raised a Missouri-Synod Lutheran in rural Wisconsin, and nearly every Sunday of my childhood included a long, white room where folding tables full of people I’d known forever enjoyed some kind of casserole,... Read More