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
New York City Makes the Moral Choice: School Sex Ed
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
Back to School: What Are Secular Students Up To?
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
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
