WHILE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES have long been touted as philanthropic and generous, with many datasets showing that religious people give more money to charities compared to their secular counterparts, humanism prides itself on compassion and mutual... Read More

THERE IS ONE AVENUE towards my personal experience of wonder that is guaranteed: Yosemite National Park. I grew up less than an hour from the valley floor and spent many lazy Saturday afternoons dangling my... Read More

Cherri Pitts has been an active member of South Texas Atheists for Reason (STAR) since February 2016 and became STAR’s director of administration in July of 2016. She’s also a regular volunteer at the atheist/humanist... Read More

In the early morning hours, Azara Majira is setting up her small store in her home village of Bandiyili in the Northern Region of Ghana. She sings softly to herself. Her store isn’t much more... Read More

STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS: a Texas man is suing for the right to marry his Apple computer. Actually, stop me anyway. Chris Sevier’s real aim is to get the Supreme Court to overturn... Read More

Snips and snails And puppy-dogs’ tails That’s what little boys are made of. Sugar and spice And all that’s nice That’s what little girls are made of.   LAST YEAR WAS A BIG YEAR FOR... Read More

This article has been adapted from the talk I gave on June 10, 2017, at the 76th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in Charleston, South Carolina. Because all of humanity’s misconceptions about sex... Read More