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Theocracy Watch: A Christian 51st State?
Christian conservatives in the State of Washington recently held a fundraiser on behalf of their proposal to create a new state, adding a fifty-first star to our national flag. The original idea was to split off... Read More
FIRST PERSON | Dehumanized and Still Holding onto Jesus
While I do make an attempt to see things through a non-racial lens, I have to admit, at times it’s difficult to do. I am currently sitting in a coffee shop in the Montrose neighborhood in... Read More
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
BY ADAM GOPNIK BASIC BOOKS, 2019 272 PP., $26.00 The late pundit Irving Kristol, whose career began in left-wing politics and ended in neoconservatism, famously declared, “A neoconservative is a liberal who’s been mugged by reality.”... Read More
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
BY MARTIN HAGGLUND PANTHEON, 2019 464 PP.; $29.95 While a life without belief in a god is often discussed these days, less examined is the corollary to that lack of belief, which is the absence of... Read More
Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court
BY SIMON TAM TROUBLEMAKER PRESS, 2019 326 PP.; $26.99 Debates on free speech nowadays tend to revolve around whether one should be free to call their Pakistani neighbor racial slurs without consequence or whether university students... Read More
Considering Reparations
When a person mentions the word reparations, many conjure up an image of a zig-zagging, hundred-mile trail of black people lined up at the door of the White House, cartoon money bags in hand, waiting for... Read More
So We Lost – What Now?
The Supreme Court has historically protected church-state separation and civil rights, however, recent appointments influenced by white Christian nationalists and their lobbying groups have dramatically changed the makeup of the court. This change is clearly demonstrated... Read More
Exploring How Faith Shapes the Artist
At the 2019 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in late March, five writers of fiction, poetry, and comedy came together for a panel titled “Art and Identity: How Race, Faith, & Sexuality Shape... Read More
AHA’s 78th Annual Conference: Expanding Our Reach, Reducing Our Footprint
Last week the American Humanist Association hosted a conference that broke new ground in a way that neither we, nor any other secular or humanist organization, had ever attempted before. Rather than offering one static conference,... Read More
Meet the Intern: Michaela Reger
Please welcome our new legal intern, Michaela Reger! What is your educational background? From 2014 to 2018 I attended Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and received a BA in English: Creative Writing. After graduation I... Read More