In March 2009 headlines blared across the front pages of New York’s Daily News that were at once stimulating, scary, and altogether predictable. Dr. Jeff Steinberg, a doctor at the Fertility Institute, with offices in... Read More

If philosophy has all along proclaimed the unexamined life to be not worth living, it seems not yet to have grasped that the unloving life is hardly worth examining. Think about the “story” of your... Read More

Speaking to his congregation at Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, in September, Pastor Paul Blair proclaimed himself a “God-fearing Oklahoman” and a “patriotic American.” As such, he said, “I will be casting my ballot... Read More

More often than not, conservatives represent the internal Christian debate over the ethics of homosexuality as if it were between those who hold firm to traditional Christian values and those who have sold out to... Read More

The term “family values,” the importance of which fundamentalist Christians have been preaching for decades, continues to permeate religious and political printed matter and discussions in the United States today. The conservatives’ concept of family... Read More

The following is adapted from Bill Nye’s speech in acceptance of the 2010 Humanist of the Year Award, presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in San Jose, California. First of... Read More

Sebastian Velez, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, is the founder and director of Children of the Border, a development project serving impoverished people in the southernmost border region between the Dominican Republic and Haiti.... Read More