By Steve Major As a kid, I once asked my father why churches didn’t have to pay taxes. He responded vaguely, saying that churches were considered beneficial to society in a way that justified their... Read More

America may have its own issues with non-believers and secularism, but atheistic Americans should be thankful that they likely won’t ever have to experience the abuse that Alexander Aan has been subjected to in the... Read More

By Timothy Cichon The North Carolina ban on equal marriage has caused another round of discussions to crop up on television and the Internet, and also provided President Obama with the perfect opportunity to state... Read More

Can you name all of the skeptics that appear on the cover of the Humanist magazine's May/June 2012 issue? (If you’re not receiving the Humanist, become a member of the American Humanist Association today!) Write... Read More

New comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!

Yesterday I met Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado and Representative Chris Murphy of Connecticut to thank them personally for their co-sponsorship of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)—an issue that the American Humanist Association is actively... Read More

AHA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt and AHA Development and Communications Director Maggie Ardiente met with officials at the U.S. Department of State's Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF) in Washington DC. The IRF is part... Read More