Jason Frye
Jason Frye is a secular humanist celebrant, political science professor, and interfaith participant. He leads a long-running secular discussion salon in San Diego and writes at the intersection of religion, policy, and play.
Posts by Jason Frye
The Tragedy of Queer Bubbes
James Boswell once summed up the tragedy of the LGBT community: we do not have Jewish grandmothers (from "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality," 1980).... Read More
Where Humanists Fit: Notes from a Godless Clergy in a Sacred Parade
Marching among priests and imams, a secular celebrant reflects on interfaith inclusion, moral authority, and the sweet irony of swinging a thurible without a... Read More
San Diegans March Against Hate
On that cold November evening, just a day after the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, I stood before hundreds assembled in San Diego,... Read More
Beyond Gods and Monsters—Sculpting a New Norm of Loyalty
WAR, IT HAS BEEN SAID, is politics by other means; religion is politics by most means. When people go to war in the name... Read More
Religion, Violence, and Satire: A Humanist Response to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Update: According to the Epoch Times, one of the Charlie Hebdo attackers, Hamyd Mourad, has reportedly surrendered to French police, and two other suspects... Read More
Hobby Lobby Isn’t About Religion. It’s About Health Care.
The news is abuzz with the Supreme Court's decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. Yesterday’s opinion is generating the immediate and untempered 140-character outrage... Read More
Icarus of Brooklyn: A Spiritual Quest Gone Wrong
In the last decade we have allowed the primary interest of dignity and the human element in humanism to be slowly superseded by a... Read More