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 recent book, An Atheist Stranger in a Strange Religious Land, was published by Humanist Press.
Posts by Herb Silverman
What I Learned from 11 Humanist Groups in 11 Days
I recently drove with my wife Sharon from our home in Charleston, South Carolina, to eleven locations in Florida in eleven days, covering over... Read More
In Defense of Trump’s Tweets… or Not
Both supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump often say his frequent tweets are not “presidential,” a poorly defined word. I don’t think presidents... Read More
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