The Humanist Membership Gap: Ideas on Effectively Reaching Out to New Nontheists
By Mike Steiner According to various recent surveys, nontheists comprise about 15% of Americans, equivalent to over 35 million people. But when we combine the membership of major humanist and atheist organizations, that number is... Read More
Humanist Chapters and Student Groups: How Can We Collaborate?
By Nate Mauger At college campuses around the country, secular students have been mobilizing to plan lively student group discussions on secular issues, organize service projects locally and nationally, and promote awareness of the secular... Read More
Best of the Hate Mail: Feedback from
By Erin Williamson "Consider Humanism,” the largest and most far-reaching atheist ad campaign ever to launch in the United States, challenged the Religious Right this holiday season. Comparing humanist values such as equality, freedom, peace,... Read More
First Humanist Community Center Opens in Phoenix
By Susan Sackett The Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix (HSGP) held its first meeting in our newly renovated building in Mesa, Ariz. on December 19. About 125 members of HSGP assembled for our annual HumanLight... Read More
Steven Pinker on Textbooks, Culture Wars and the “A” Word
On April 22, Dr. Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the department of psychology at Harvard University, lectured at Midland College in Texas on "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a... Read More
By AMANDA KNIEF For HumanistNetworkNews.org Originally published June 02, 2010 "Do you think God hates us all a little bit right now?" The gentleman's question hung heavy in the humid Tennessee air as I looked... Read More
Mississippi Maiming: The World As Our Witness
By STEVE, TERRESA, RYAN, CONNOR and ERIN SCHLICHT For HumanistNetworkNews.org Originally published June 30, 2010 Nearly five years after our family offered the Humanist magazine the chronicle of our experiences on the Mississippi Gulf Coast... Read More
