More Light Than Heat The Importance of Education in Coping with Climate Change

The Climate Book, a massive anthology compiled by Greta Thunberg—the young Swedish environmental activist who won global fame after she launched her School Strike for Climate in 2018—offers a compendious treatment of climate change. Its... Read More
Climate Change Lesson Sets from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE)

Working with experts on climate science and master science teachers, the National Center for Science Education developed a group of lesson sets on climate change aimed at helping science teachers to dismantle the most common... Read More
For Further Reading

The best discussion of climate change education for the general reader is Katie Worth’s Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America (Columbia Global Reports 2021), a meticulously researched and vividly written discussion of the... Read More
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
Everyday Humanist Hero: Bryon Pavlacka

TheHumanist.com’s series Everyday Humanist Heroes celebrates our movement’s group organizers, activists, support staff, and volunteers making a difference in their communities. Who do you want to celebrate? Bryon Pavlacka is an everyday humanist hero because he... Read More
Journeys to Humanism: Shaping My Own Guiding Philosophy

Journeys to Humanism, theHumanist.com’s regular series, features real stories from humanists in our community. From heartwarming narratives of growth, to more difficult journeys, our readers open up about their experiences coming to humanism. Rich Nelson... Read More