Secular Americans have been perceived unjustly as a marginal group, a cranky group and--sometimes with justification--an infighting group. If we want to return American life to its secular heritage, we must define ourselves as an... Read More

By FRED EDWORDS For HumanistNetworkNews.org Mar. 10, 2010 The day when same-sex marriage became legal in the District of Columbia--March 3, 2010--the American Humanist Association issued a press release announcing that its celebrants, certified through... Read More

Let me take you back to May 15, 2008. It's very nearly 10 am, and I am sitting in my statistics class, laptop open, trying desperately to catch a whiff of broadband signal. My professor... Read More

COLUMN By HEMANT MEHTA Adapted from "The Friendly Atheist." For HumanistNetworkNews.org Mar. 10, 2010 Members of the Atheist Agenda group at the University of Texas at San Antonio ran a "Smut for Smut" campaign recently--similar... Read More

HNN Readers React  For HumanistNetworkNews.org Mar. 10, 2010 To send a letter to HNN, look for "Letter to the Editor" link in the small box in the upper right-hand corner of every article in HNN.... Read More

On Friday, February 26, I had the privilege of attending the Secular Coalition for America's Briefing with the Obama Administration for what was a truly a remarkable moment in our movement's--and the nation's--history. Of course,... Read More

By AMANDA METSKAS For HumanistNetworkNews.org Mar. 03, 2010 The following is written in remembrance of Helen Kagin, beloved co-founder of Camp Quest, who died two weeks ago at the age of 76. It's hard to... Read More