Lt. Dan Choi: The Face of a Movement

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

A 9/11 Story: From Catholicism to Atheism

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

Message from the Editor: The Back to School Issue

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

Helping Our Kids Become Humanists

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

The Sunday School Alternative: Starting a Children

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