Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong Part 1: The Gender Binary
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
Belief in a Shared Future An interview with Abdul El-Sayed, Muslim-American candidate for Governor of Michigan
This interview has been edited for clarity and readability. In February Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim-American, announced he would seek the Democratic nomination for governor of Michigan. El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar who holds a... Read More
Reason in Bronze Clarence Darrow to reunite with William Jennings Bryan at Dayton courthouse
“Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in... Read More
Christian Hegemony in the Age of Trump
THE PRAYERS of the religious right appeared to have been answered on Election Day when Donald Trump, who vowed to defend “our Christian heritage,” was elected president of the United States. Emboldened by their electoral... Read More
Can Bacteria Help Us Understand Religion?
RELIGION IS one of the most powerful forces in human society. Before the rise of the Christian Right in the United States and before Islamists turned planes into bombs and started beheading people on social... Read More
Humanism and the Challenge of Privilege
This article is an excerpt from chapter four of When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race (Pitchstone Publishing, 2017). This book is part of a series on practical humanism Dr. Pinn... Read More
Ask What You Can Do for Your Climate
While the federal government is becoming a follower rather than a leader on climate change, we humanists can fight on the state, local, and personal levels to achieve huge reductions in greenhouse gases. IF THE... Read More