With his new book, The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism, A.C. Grayling, the London-based author of The Good Book: A Humanist Bible, gives us exactly what he promises in the book’s... Read More

Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and activist who promotes a progressive—and aggressive—conception of humanism that is at once feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-classist, and anti-imperialist. She has no patience for nontheists who focus primarily on church/state... Read More

“The human being is by nature a social animal (Ho anthrōpos phusei politikon zōon).” —Aristotle, Politics (see also Nicomachean Ethics) In 2006, three years after retiring as the head of the Meadville Lombard Theological School... Read More

The knowledge we’ve gleaned from science has shrunk the remaining possible realm of deities to the infinitesimal. Religionists have responded by arguing that omnipotent deities exist perpetually beyond the detection of science. Half a century... Read More

As handsome, beloved Amos lay dying, Daisy did her best to make him comfortable. Daisy seemed to grasp Amos’s situation and, being part of a tight-knit community, Amos could count on affection and assistance from... Read More

In the last decade we have allowed the primary interest of dignity and the human element in humanism to be slowly superseded by a popular anti-theism that declares religious people stupid, and us intellectually superior.... Read More

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the elites of Europe and the United States were thrilled by what they perceived as a rather sophisticated class of automatons, mechanical marvels that could do everything from play... Read More