This week’s featured poems are by Zachary Bos. Zachary is administrative coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum at Boston University and serves as the advisor to the Humanists of Boston University.... Read More

By Hemant Mehta This article first appeared on The Friendly Atheist, now hosted on Patheos.   C. R. Wiley, a Presbyterian pastor, has an article in RELEVANT (a Christian magazine) about why Christians ought to befriend atheists... Read More

Dear Members of the American Humanist Association, The Red Cross. Doctors Without Borders. UNICEF. OXFAM. These and many other charitable organizations are undoubtedly familiar to humanists—we donate to them in times of trouble. We might... Read More

Over the course of two weeks of sustained protest against the Keystone XL oil pipeline—lasting from August 20 to September 3—over 1,000 individuals were arrested while participating in a peaceful sit-in in front of the... Read More

By Steve Ahlquist This article first appeared on the Humanists of Rhode Island’s blog.   When a community finds itself in the path of a storm the size of Hurricane Irene, there is little that... Read More

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks decided she had had enough. When the driver of a crowded Montgomery bus decided to extend the “whites only” seating past the section Rosa Parks was occupying, she refused... Read More

By Diqui LaPenta I grew up in a Catholic family, attending church every Sunday and catechism every week. When I started college, I stopped going to church except on holidays or for family funerals, and... Read More