“My Faith was Crowdsourced — and the Crowd Changed”: How I Left Islam
Some nontheists who leave religion don’t encounter much opposition (or are lucky enough to be encouraged!) and don’t see their atheist identity as something to fight for. Others have faced strenuous hardships in their deconversion... Read More
Turn Up, Shut Up, and Keep Up: How to Be an Ally
If you’ve done any work in social justice circles you will have heard the word “ally”: white people are called on to be allies to people of color, straight people allies to LGBTQ people, men... Read More
The Roots of Building a Secular Community Part 1: The Roots
This article is dedicated to Marvin Straus, a true pioneer in the Colorado secular movement, founder of the Boulder Atheists, co-founder of Colorado Coalition of Reasin (COCORE), my first secular mentor, and a good friend. ... Read More
Why Aren’t There More Women in the Secular Community? An Interview with Kristen Kennedy
Last week, I discovered a story about Denver University’s Kristen Kennedy, a senior undergraduate double-majoring in International Studies and Sociology who has received grant money to work on a subject of interest to the humanist... Read More
The Humanist Interview with Gene Roddenberry
The March/April 1991 issue of the Humanist magazine featured an exclusive, in-depth (twenty-six page!) interview between then-Editor David Alexander and Star Trek creator and humanist Gene Roddenberry. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the... Read More
Is Populism a Threat to Science?
American scientists have reason for optimism. A large majority of Americans agree that science has made the world a better place and that federal funding for science is a good thing. But we also have... Read More
Three Things that Must Happen with the Advent of Ending Private Prisons An In-Depth Look at Private Prison Reform
Last Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a memo addressed from Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to the acting director of the federal Bureau of Prisons that they would be phasing out the... Read More