Relax, Studying Theology Doesn’t Make You Religious It may even enhance your humanism
Fall welcomes a new semester at Meadville Lombard Theological School (MLTS), where the American Humanist Association (AHA) Center for Education will be offering two of its four graduate-level courses in humanism. Earlier this month, criticism... Read More
Technology Is a Human Right So let’s make sure everyone can use it
In today’s COVID-19 world, everything is digital. Happy hours are now 5 p.m. Zoom calls, first-time dates are on FaceTime, four-year-olds are learning the ABCs from an iPad. This is an incredibly common topic of... Read More
100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: Celebrating a Centennial and Reckoning with the Past
In 2019, Democratic women from the US House of Representatives invoked the suffragists of a century before by wearing white to the State of the Union. It was a powerful symbol of solidarity and a... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Can I Ask My Neighbor to Stop Blowing Smoke?
What Would a Humanist Do? offers multiple opinions on the same question. What exactly qualifies as a humanist problem, readers often ask. Our answer: humanists are committed to being good without a God, but sometimes they... Read More
Storming of the Cults: A Revolutionary Remembrance
In the modern American consciousness, the French Revolution might evoke imagery of guillotines, Marie Antoinette, powdered wigs, and lots of angry French citizens. For humanists, the French Revolution marks the beginning of a new age... Read More
Embracing the Discomfort of Progress: An Interview with Krista Cox
This year the American Humanist Association’s Annual Conference (its 79th) is going completely virtual. On Saturday, August 8, 2020, from 11:00am – 6:30pm ET, the AHA will host a day-long conference: Distant but Together: A Virtual... Read More
It Could Happen Here
The image of Donald Trump holding up a freshly purchased Bible in front of a boarded-up church in opposition to the Black Lives Matter protesters reminded me of two things. First, that humanists have a... Read More