Michael Werner
Posts by Michael Werner (page 5)
The Church of the Greater Solipsism
Much of the secular world has focused on problems of traditional organized authoritarian religion, but has had little concern for the equally problematic modern... Read More
Regaining Balance
Humanism within the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has been on the decline for years. Indeed, the UUA has been on the decline itself after... Read More
Time to Turn Silence into Activism
This past summer, after the owner of the fast-food franchise Chick-fil-A made headlines with a number of statements opposing marriage equality, about two dozen... Read More
Interpersonal Dimensions of Humanism
This is a tough world where our heroic selves emerge from our wounded selves in order to help us survive. Still, studies of what... Read More
Tending the Humanist Garden
When I stopped believing in God, like so many “come-outer” atheists who feel confident and even smug in their reasoning, I was ready to... Read More
The Inner Life of Humanists
I see humanism as having four dimensions; the intrapersonal, the interpersonal, the societal, and the global. We may gravitate toward one dimension or another,... Read More
Why Half the People Joining Churches Choose the Mega Variety
The Willow Creek Church in suburban Chicago is the largest, most influential church in the United States. It has over 23,000 Sunday attendees but,... Read More