It’s back-to-school time! This week’s issue covers humanism and education—from the importance of comprehensive sex education to the need for nonreligious Sunday Schools. Check out the wonderful work of the Secular Student Alliance as they... Read More

New York City has just mandated sex education in all public schools. Students in middle school and high school will get one semester each. The city’s logic is pretty simple: New York teens have an... Read More

By Lyz Liddell   As students head back to school, the Secular Student Alliance is already working hard to make sure that secular campus groups are prepared for an awesome year! Nonreligious students are a... Read More

By Philip E. Johnson The classic approach to learning, worldwide and since the beginning of education, has been the general idea of the transfer of information. The younger generation needs to know the facts—everything from... Read More

By Bob Bhaerman As director of the Kochhar Humanist Education Center, whose mission is to offer lifelong education resources that teach positive humanist values, I often have been asked how the American Humanist Association plans... Read More

By Bernadette Cahill Women’s Equality Day (August 26) is a national commemorative day that deserves instant recognition by all citizens, like Martin Luther King day does, for it honors the heroes of the longest civil... Read More

Magma streams like rivers down the gape of an erupting volcano. It could symbolize the Roman god Vulcan, forging the pillars of the Earth. It could be Pele, the Hawaiian god of death and rebirth.... Read More