Same-Sex Marriage and the Doctrine of the Lower Magistrate
An October 17 news article out of Rockingham County, North Carolina, reported that Magistrate John Kallam Jr. chose to step down from his duties because he felt that conducting a same-sex wedding would conflict with... Read More
Don’t Be a Dick’s
When twelve-year-old McKenna Peterson wrote to Dick’s Sporting Goods complaining that no women were represented as athletes in their basketball catalog, she was pointing out the obvious: Forty-two years after the other Dick signed Title... Read More
Contest Winner: How Would You Rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance?
Thank you to the over 100 entries for our “How Would You Rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance?” Contest! We read through every email and comment, and it was tough to pick the best one. Many... Read More
Yes Means Yes: A New Law to Help Protect Women and Men from Sexual Assault
The first “Religion and the Media” class I taught in the United Kingdom’s state-maintained schools was in 2004. Students in the religious studies classes are taught how to be critical consumers of media as they... Read More
What We’re Learning from the Pledge Kids Critical thinking is often met with hostility in American schools
The American Humanist Association’s Don’t Say the Pledge campaign, which encourages a boycott of the Pledge of Allegiance until the “under God” wording is removed, has revealed a troubling phenomenon in American public schools, a... Read More
On The Hill: Which Religions Care Most About Church-State Separation?
This week I attended an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, which focused on the 2014 American Values Survey created by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). PRRI has been doing this survey... Read More
9/11 Unity Walk Welcomes Humanists
On a gloriously bright, hot day yesterday in Washington, DC, hundreds of people walked down Massachusetts Avenue visiting houses of worship along Embassy Row as part of the 9th annual 9/11 Unity Walk. The event... Read More