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The Family: More Gilead than Godly
When tuning in to Netflix’s five part documentary series The Family—which provides an inside look into the high-powered Christian ministry known as The Fellowship (aka The Family)—viewers can be forgiven for thinking they clicked on Hulu... Read More
The Comics Section: Persecuted Minorities and Tariff Miscommunications
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
On a Kentucky Train Track, a Union Protest without the Union
Last month, on July 1, coal mining industry titan Blackjewel collapsed into bankruptcy. On July 29, about twenty miners who had been previously employed by Blackjewel took up residence on the train tracks in Cumberland, Kentucky.... Read More
What’s Really behind Evangelicals’ Climate Denial?
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
About a Boy: My Transition from Religion and the Trauma It Inflicts
As a transgender high school student in Gloucester County, Virginia, Gavin Grimm sued the Gloucester Country School Board in 2015 for the right to use the boys’ bathrooms at his school. Representing Grimm, the ACLU argued... Read More
From Brexit to El Paso: The Geopolitics of White Hate
On the bustling streets of Kensington in London last week, one of the Black women I asked to comment on the recent election of Boris Johnson (who has been branded as Donald Trump’s British mini-me) vehemently... Read More
The Humanist Dilemma: Who Needs a Wall When We Have Epistemic Closure?
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. Realm of Rigid Bubbles: I happen to travel in... Read More
Mottos, Prayers, Courses, and Clubs To Protect Students' Rights, We Must Keep Church and State Separate
After the latest round of mass shootings over the course of two weekends—gun violence that claimed a life in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn; four lives in Gilroy, California; twenty-two in El Paso, Texas; and nine... Read More
Boris Johnson: No Healer of Nations
In the new trend of undemocratically electing heads of state, the United States and the United Kingdom seem to be on the vanguard of how far comparable governments can go. It would be a lie to... Read More
The Importance of Music Education
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