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I was raised a Missouri-Synod Lutheran in rural Wisconsin, and nearly every Sunday of my childhood included a long, white room where folding tables full of people I’d known forever enjoyed some kind of casserole, plastic... Read More

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF HUMANISM? How does one live as a humanist? Like many of you, I have read a plethora of articles and longer works defining humanism. Each proclaims a different emphasis highlighting various... Read More

How did you learn about sex? Were you taught that it’s a natural part of life or that it’s a sin? Did you receive medically accurate information that prepared you to make safe and responsible decisions... Read More

It's been quite a week here in Washington, DC, as news broke of POTUS, a phone call with Ukraine, a whistleblower complaint, and what appears to be a concerted effort to bury it. To keep spirits... Read More

Today we bring you our third installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on the same question. As with our long-running “Humanist Dilemma” column by Joan Reisman-Brill, readers often ask what qualifies... Read More

The latest from Jesus and Mo and Cagle Cartoons!         Arsonist by David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star, Tucson, AZ  

What if there was one activity that could benefit every student in every school across the nation? An activity that could improve grades and scores on standardized testing? An activity that would allow students to form... Read More

Determinism is bound to remain one of the more intriguing problems in philosophy as well as science. As the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says: “There is no agreement over whether determinism is true (or even whether... Read More

Despite decades of research, standardized testing, and increased spending, educational outcomes in the United States have stagnated behind other developed countries. Literacy rates and reading skills of our nation’s seventeen-year-olds have demonstrated little to no growth... Read More

  BY ALL ESTIMATES, the earth has gone through five mass extinctions, all of which were the direct result of some form of cataclysmic climate change. These cataclysmic changes were mostly caused by large amounts of... Read More