Many humanists dedicate tireless energy and time to advancing quality science education in our public schools. With the religious right attempting to remove the teaching of evolution from textbooks while also promoting charter schools as... Read More

SINCE LONG BEFORE the oldest physical creations in human culture—the raising of the step pyramid at Saqqara or the Great Wall of China, for example—people have been telling stories of human origins. Through religion, such... Read More

I WAS, UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY, unaware of the existence of the secular humanist community, organized around the values of rationality, free inquiry, and the right that each of us has to flourish in this life—the... Read More

"HOW CAN YOU STAND IT?" The young woman appeared to be on the brink of tears but there was anger in her voice too. “I mean, every day your job requires you to hear about... Read More

The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy By Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams W. W. Norton & Company (2015) From Chapter One: Changing... Read More

View photos from this event at the bottom of this post. Yesterday the American Humanist Association and the Center for Freethought Equality (the AHA’s 501c4 sister organization) held our first ever congressional reception on Capitol... Read More

For Charles Darwin, it was an invitation from his former Cambridge mentor J.S. Henslow that would change his life. Up until that time, Darwin had been given nothing more than what his uncle Josiah Wedgwood... Read More