Study Reveals More Defined Picture of Our Civically Active Humanist Community
Recently, I joined the authors of Secular Surge: The New Fault Line in American Politics for a panel discussion about their new book. Like any good student, I read the book in preparation, which led... Read More
BOOK PREVIEW | If You Exist: In Search of a Reader Deep in the Future
BY LILIAN MOATS THREE ARTS PRESS, AUGUST 2021 If You Exist is a personal message written, not to currently living, but rather future descendants, who may find it many generations in the future. The aging... Read More
Justice-Centered Humanism
BY ROY SPECKHARDT PITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2021 As is true for so many nonfiction works, it’s the subtitle that’s pivotal in explaining what the title only suggests. In the end, Roy Speckhardt’s Justice-Centered Humanism is a... Read More
A Thousand Brains
BY JEFF HAWKINS BASIC BOOKS, 2021 Many of us wonder at how our brains work—and we are often even more puzzled about how the brains of other people work. Jeff Hawkins’ new book, A Thousand... Read More
Humanists in the Hood
BY SIKIVU HUTCHINSON PITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2020 While growing up as a precocious young girl in South Los Angeles, Sikivu Hutchinson observed startling misogyny, racism, religious bigotry, economic injustice, housing inequality, and other forms of injustice... Read More
Bleak Walls, Bright Minds: In Their Own Words
BY SUE HUTCHINS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER, 2020 Note: Travis W. of Iowa State Penitentiary wrote a chapter of this book. He is a member of one of the American Humanist Association’s first prison chapters and has... Read More
The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism
BOOK BY STEPHEN P. WELDON JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020 Stephen P. Weldon’s book, which originated with his 1997 doctoral dissertation and is part of the publisher’s series Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context,... Read More