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The Humanist Dilemma: How Do I Get My Parents to See My Worldview Isn’t Their Failure?
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All inquiries are kept confidential. Disagree to Disagree: I’m twenty-five, and since high school... Read More
The Comics Section: Letterboxes & Blue Waves
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
A Tale of Two Rallies? Two (Slightly) Different Responses to Sunday’s Counterprotests
Part I This weekend, the American Humanist Association was a visible presence at the Still Here, Still Strong rally, joining thousands of people at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, and marching to the White House where... Read More
The Comics Section: Apophatic Theology & Caustic Agents
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
Want to Bring Back Bipartisanship? Try Restoring Pork Barrel Spending
American politics are especially divisive at the moment, which is why the current Congress is one of the least productive in decades and struggles to get much of anything done. But just because things are especially... Read More
The Humanist Dilemma: Feeling Isolated and Stuck, Seeking Humanity
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All inquiries are kept confidential. I’m in Crisis: I’ve been living in a small... Read More
Toward a New Theology of Foreign Policy
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as... Read More
Simultaneously Fighting for Secular Government and LGBTQ Rights
Today, LGBTQ rights have become the battleground in the US culture war between those clinging to discriminatory religious beliefs and a growing coalition of the nonreligious and their progressive religious allies. Among all religious categories, nontheists... Read More
The Ethical Dilemma: No, You Don’t Have to Stand for the Pledge
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Ethical Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Ethical Dilemma). All inquiries are kept confidential. Do I Have to Stand for the Pledge?... Read More
All in All, I’m Just another Brick in the Wall
On the day the U.S. Supreme Court was to announce its decision in the Hobby Lobby case, I sat huddled around a computer with other staff and interns of the Secular Coalition for America waiting with... Read More