Merrill Miller
Posts by Merrill Miller (page 17)
The Isla Vista Shootings and Why We Need Humanist Heroines and Heroes
On June 7, 2014, Jessica Valenti received the Humanist Heroine Award at the American Humanist Association’s annual conference. Through her writing and filmmaking, Valenti... Read More
Creative or Creepy? The Michael Jackson Hologram and Humanism
Last week in Las Vegas at the Billboard Music Awards, Michael Jackson brought the live audience to its feet as he moonwalked across the... Read More
A Bad Week for Pro-Choice Advocates: New Restrictions on Abortion Access
Last week was not a good week for pro-choice advocates. The Missouri state legislature passed a bill that would require women to wait three... Read More
Humanism and the Death Penalty
The botched execution of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett on April 29, 2014, in Oklahoma was widely reported, and his painful death by lethal injection,... Read More
National Day of Reason 2014 Wrap-Up
Yesterday, the American Humanist Association and other humanist, atheist, secular and freethought groups celebrated the National Day of Reason. Since 2003, the American Humanist... Read More
5 Famous Atheists in Literature
In a recent Slate article Dan Falk asks, “Was Shakespeare an atheist?” and concludes that he very well may have been. But Shakespeare is... Read More
AHA Wins Lawsuit Against Lake Elsinore Cross Monument
The City of Lake Elsinore, California, has declined to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that a public monument depicting crosses violates the Establishment Clause... Read More