HUMANISTS EXPECT their heroes to be positive. That’s what humanism is, after all—a positive morality that launches off the negation of belief; an actively asserted moral framework that hinges on solutions, on progress, on unwavering... Read More

ON THE NIGHT of January 30, 1873, in his home at 17 Heriot Row in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson told his parents that he no longer believed in God. He’d grown tired of pretending... Read More

How much better would the Bible be if the poet voice had won out over the priestly? In the summer of 1957, fresh out of the navy (remember the draft and the Korean War?), I... Read More

ON THE MONDAY following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 26, 2015, decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (that removed legal restrictions against same-sex marriage), Earl Benjamin and Michael Robinson exercised their newly sanctioned right, and became... Read More

IN 2005, one of today’s most revered American writers, David Foster Wallace (now deceased), delivered a commencement address to graduates of Kenyon College, titled “This Is Water.” The twenty-minute speech is worth a listen or... Read More

I'D LIKE TO THANK the American Humanist Association (Maggie Ardiente in particular) and Dr. Anthony B. Pinn for organizing the “Humanism and Race” panel at the 2015 AHA conference in Denver, Colorado, this past spring.... Read More

LAST YEAR I took my six-year-old daughter to a demonstration and die-in in Hollywood. Across the globe, protestors from every walk of life had converged to express their outrage over the double whammy non-indictments of... Read More