The Humanist Archives

September / October 2009

• THE ISSUE AT HAND
• Musings of a Solo-ist Astrophysicist
• The HUMANIST Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Baptism in Broad-mindedness: Saving Future Teachers from Creationism
• An “Eco” Systems Approach: Reproductive Rights Go Green
• Humanism and the Burqa Bugaboo
• Confessions of a Prayer-Struck Atheist
• An Edible History of Humanity

July / August 2009

• THE ISSUE AT HAND
• Star Trek Made Me an Atheist
• Counterfeiting Tradition
• Hidden from History
• Torture Probe: Who’s Being Protected under the Searing Bright Light?
• Nothing Sacred: What We Talk about When We Talk about Torture
• If English Was Good Enough for Jesus…
• Thomas Paine, 1737-1809
• Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie

May / June 2009

• Rational Sunday School
• OPERATION BABY LIFT: An Adoptee’s Perspective
• The Humanist Interview with Eboo Patel
• LOCKDOWN: Are Teens (and Taxpayers) Paying the Price at Christian Reform Schools?
• Attendance Check
• Bad/Good Teachers
• The Reason “Everything Happens for a Reason”
• Priscilla Robertson, 1910-1989
• Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided

March / April 2009

• The Obama National Security Team: Old Wine in Old Bottles
• Who Killed Neil Beagley?
• The Humanitarian Impulse: Not “God’s Work” for this Veteran
• Who’s Your Guide?
• Evangelizing: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
• Pedaling Our Way to Energy Independence
• Invocation Irritation: What’s to Be Done about Government Prayer?

January / February 2009

• THE ISSUE AT HAND
• Cry If You Want To—Cases of Mistaken Atheism Still Offensive
• Why Genocide?
• Inexorably toward Trial: Reflections on the Dover Case and the “Least Dangerous Branch”
• The Evolution of the Mind and What It Means to Humanism
• Against Optimism

November / December 2008

• THE ISSUE AT HAND
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Still Ahead of Its Time?
• What Would Jesus Do…If He Were a Lawyer?
• One Nation Under the Constitution: Reason, Politics, and Morality in the New Century
• The Accidental Atheist: From Hippie to Humanist in Half a Century
• In Pursuit of the God Particle
• Day of the Undead: Religious Right Alive and Kicking in America