Silver Lining in the Big Tent What a Humanist Future Can Mean
Carl Coon graduated from Harvard University in 1949 and promptly joined the U.S. Foreign Service. He spent the next thirty-seven years in a variety of posts stretching from Morocco to Nepal, serving as ambassador to... Read More
For Saying It The Humanist Interview with Dan Savage, 2013 Humanist of the Year
Dan Savage gets in trouble for saying things. For saying that monogamy isn’t a requirement for a healthy marriage, that postponing coming out can be the right choice, and that not all gay people are... Read More
Preaching to the Nones How Two British Comedians Started a Popular Atheist Church (No Joke!)
Upon entering a Sunday Assembly, held in historic York Hall in East London, one could easily assume that these gatherings are yet another attempt to plant a holy hipster church. If you stick around, however,... Read More
Regaining Balance The Evolution of the UUA
Humanism within the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has been on the decline for years. Indeed, the UUA has been on the decline itself after having been instrumental in the development of modern day humanism. What... Read More
The End
Editor's note: this article deals with end-of-life care and dying with dignity. Click here for additional material on this sensitive issue. We sat hip to hip on the family room sofa that day holding hands,... Read More
Love & Death Bollywood tackles assisted suicide
Some of the most humanistic films currently being produced are coming out of the Mumbai, India-based Hindi-language film industry popularly known as Bollywood. A prime example is the 2010 movie Guzaarish, which tackles the subject... Read More
Waiting Around to Die
They were among my father’s last words, uttered a few days before he died. I sat in one of the kitchen chairs next to the hospice bed set up in the den where the television... Read More