Last week the Pew Research Group reported that the number of stay-at-home mothers is increasing in the United States, rising from 23 percent in 1999 to 29 percent in 2012. When we hear “stay-at-home mom”... Read More

A bill recently filed in Louisiana would make the Bible that state’s official book. Not any Bible, mind you, but their oldest edition of the Holy Bible, published by Johannes Prevel in the early 1500s... Read More

All of us have certain moments we recall that startled us from complacency, jarred our perspective, or informed our future in a way that could not be fully discerned until years later. Back in the... Read More

How many people of faith take seriously the biblical admonition against public prayer—“Be careful about not living righteously merely to be seen by people,” (Matthew 6:1)? Everywhere you turn more religious people are trying to... Read More

A lawsuit by the American Humanist Association and four individual plaintiffs resulted in a federal ruling on Tuesday, March 25, that placed a preliminary injunction on the Board of Commissioners of Carroll County, Maryland. The... Read More

Yesterday Judge William D. Quarels, Jr. of the U.S. District Court of Maryland issued the preliminary injunction today to stop sectarian prayers held before meetings of the Carroll County Board of Commissioners. The American Humanist... Read More

The American Humanist Association's Appignani Humanist Legal Center sent a letter today to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in response to USCIS's repeated rejection of naturalization applications... Read More