Is It Time to Talk About Reparations? Humanism Beyond Inclusion

FROM TIME TO TIME, I’ll receive emails and calls from humanists and atheists thanking me for my work—and in those short exchanges I’m often told that I am an important new voice advancing humanism. While... Read More
Thoughts from a Palestinian Humanist

I COME BY HUMANISM HONESTLY. Growing up in Alabama where half of my family was evangelical, fundamentalist Baptist and the other half was Catholic, the two sides warred over who would get to save my... Read More
Upgrading our Humanism: Building a Lifestyle of Embodied Values

This article is adapted from a session presented at the 81st Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in July 2022. One evening nearly a decade ago, I found myself with friends in a Chicago... Read More
Coloring Outside the Lines: Black Women and Queer Femmes Building Humanist Community

This article is adapted from a panel discussion hosted at the 81st Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in July 2022. Leika Lewis-Cornwell, president of Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association, moderated a panel discussion about... Read More
Representation Matters: Political Participation and Empowerment

This article is adapted from a panel discussion hosted at the 81st Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in July 2022. Ron Millar, Political and PAC Coordinator at the Center for Freethought Equality (an... Read More
Humanist Chaplaincies: Creating a Space for Students

This article is adapted from a session presented at the 81st Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in July 2022. My goal is to present a roadmap to explore what humanist chaplaincy means in... Read More
Vonnegut and Jefferson and Jesus

WE ARE NEARING another Indendence Day, for which much of the credit goes to Thomas Jefferson, a progenitor of modern American democracy. A bit farther away is another occasion worth noting. This November 11 marks... Read More