Ethical Education Starts with Curiosity: An Interview with Dale McGowan
CAN CHILDREN grow up to be good without a god? That’s a question author, speaker, and educator Dale McGowan is frequently asked. The former college professor; author of four books on secular parenting, atheism, and... Read More
Knowledge is Power
Creativity: Then and Forever
"CREATIVITY” is a word often associated with the beautiful in form and function, something precious to human beings, who tend to think they invented it. Beauty? If we’re so aware of that, why do we... Read More
Paths to People Establishing a Humanist Service Corps
The Pathfinders have been to rural Cambodia, teaching English to children at dawn before they head off to the rice fields. We have sung science songs with students in Uganda while teaching them to use... Read More
The Benefit Corporation The Unlikely Hero of a Sustainable Economy?
Imagine, if you will, a paradigm shift to a sustainable global economic system in which all corporations act as responsible global citizens. The unlikely hero at the center of this transformation? It’s the newest evolutionary... Read More
Papal Economics Why Pope Francis is Making “Cafeteria Catholics” out of the Catholic Right
Since its release on November 24, 2013, Pope Francis’ first official document, Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”), has been the subject of controversy among many self-described “orthodox Catholics,” not for any questionable theological... Read More
The Materialist in Her Bathtub
The materialism of people in the United States is axiomatic. Yet Mary McCarthy argued in a 1947 Commentary essay titled “America the Beautiful” that Americans aren’t materialistic; what seems like materialism is actually idealism. Her... Read More