I remember the first time I ever heard the word homosexual. I was in the first grade, and my mother and I were sitting in the living room watching “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” as we... Read More

Both the federal debt and climate change share a peculiar trait. They are almost invisible, right up until they are not. One day the bond market panics or Miami begins scheduling scuba lessons, and everyone... Read More

War in the Middle East is upon us again, it seems. Blame the many men in power in all of the countries involved. The world was taken by surprise when the United States and Israel... Read More

Children are not chattel. Nor are they “mere creatures of the state,” as the Supreme Court of the United States held in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925). They are, in the humanist tradition, autonomous... Read More

I conclude as a humanist, and I’m sure many of you will agree, that empathy isn’t a fault of personality and compassion for others and the planet isn’t a defect in one’s perspective. While the... Read More

Most of the ethical debates I grew up hearing were colossal: war, climate disaster, reproductive rights, guns. They felt too vast to touch, as if morality only lived in rooms with microphones. But lately I’ve... Read More

In the past fifteen years since my deconversion, I’ve had many conversations with many followers across a spectrum of denominations. Despite these conversations rarely turning overtly hostile, there were always implicit assumptions about my motivations... Read More