Herb Silverman
Herb Silverman is founder and president of the Secular Coalition for America, founder of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry in Charleston, South Carolina, and a former board member of the American Humanist Association. He is also Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the College of Charleston. A regular contributor at the Huffington Post, Silverman is the author of Candidate without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt (2012). His next book, An Atheist Stranger in a Strange Religious Land, will be published this spring by Humanist Press.
Posts by Herb Silverman
His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America’s PornPanic With Honest Talk About Sex
BY MARTY KLEIN PRAEGER, 2016 208 PP.; $24.00 I WAS ONE of those teenagers who really did read the articles in Playboy, though not... Read More
Last Leper in the Colony: An Atheist Runs for Congress in the Bible Belt
BOOK BY WYNNE LEGROW 380 PP.; $19.95 A white doctor in the rural South is presumed to be a Republican and a Christian. Wynne... Read More
Positive Atheism
On Sunday, April 3, 2016, the fourth annual Dr. Irving & Annabel Wolfson Lecture was held at the UU Church of Worcester in Worcester,... Read More
Creating Change through Humanism
Humanist leaders look for media opportunities to explain our positions to the general public, and are usually countered by decidedly non-humanist opponents. In his... Read More
Jewish Atheists and Koufax Jews
Some people avoid labels, but not me. I’m a Jew, a humanist, a secular humanist, an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, a freethinker, a... Read More
Belief in the Almighty Dollar: Why We Need an Atheist PAC
I have a dream that one day Americans will judge their candidates on the content of their character and their political positions, rather than... Read More
Foreign Policy + Religion = Recipe for Disaster
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs recently recommended in an 85-page report that the U.S. government develop a strategy to make religion "integral" to... Read More