The Humanist Archives

March / April 2019

• The Winter of Our Cross Dissent
• What a Secular Monument Looks Like
• What Are We Doing about Climate Change?
• From the Slaughter
• Lots of Love: Exploring Polyamory in Portland
• BOOK EXCERPT | Nick Meets Earl
• Learning Right from Wrong: How to Teach the Bible in Public Schools
• Slavery Was Once for Many a “Sincerely Held Belief”
• CHURCH & STATE | “Biblical Literacy” Is the Last Thing the Religious Right Wants to See in Public Schools
• PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | An Atheist with a Tall Hat On: The Forgotten History of Agnosticism
• FIRST PERSON | Who Moved My Child?
• The “Fake News” We Tell Ourselves
• Humanist Dilemma: Should I Boycott Amazon?
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• America: The Farewell Tour

January / February 2019

• Have We Crossed a Line with Social Media?
• If Social Media Is Making Us Worse, Can We Make It Better?
• Can Humanism Overcome Hate?
• What Patriot Prayer is Praying For
• Why the Catholic Church Is So Conflicted about Sex
• Earth Over the Brink
• Living with Geoengineering
• CHURCH & STATE | Cross Purposes
• FIRST PERSON | Remission
• INSIDE THE WALLS | If Only More Atheists Robbed Banks
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | How Do I Tell My Sister She Can’t Have My Sperm?
• Poetry by Morgan Driscoll
• Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life
• Seven Types of Atheism
• The Best of The Humanist: Humanist Philosophy 1928-1973
• Origin: A Novel

November / December 2018

• We’ve all got to be winners—not a bad humanist slogan.
• The Ending Needs Work: Humanists Can Lead on End-of-Life Decisions
• Speaking as an Elder about Our Energy Future
• Because I Want Us to Do Better
• Parodies of Power: Why Satire Is Needed Now More Than Ever
• About a Boy: My Transition from Religion and the Trauma It Inflicts
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns Seventy
• Support the Rule of Law, Not Autocracy
• Voters Ready for Nonreligious Candidates
• CHURCH & STATE | Values Void: How the Religious Right Learned to Love Sex Offenders
• HUMANISM 101 | Racism by Numbers and the Battle Ahead
• PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | Life’s a Bitch: An Atheistic Theology of Grace
• INSIDE THE WALLS | By Any Other Name
• FIRST PERSON | The Power of Burning Man
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | I’d Rather Help Animals than People
• The Prisoner’s Lament
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
• Uncle George & Me: Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery

September / October 2018

• If the enrichment of humanity is our project, tighter bonds and bigger gifts may be the key.
• Natural Disasters & the Humanist Response
• As the Christian Church Crumbles, is Humanism Ready to Step Up?
• Faith and Faithlessness by Generation: The Decline and Rise are Real
• A New Vision for Secular Transcendence
• Exorcising the Ghosts of the Sixties
• Artificial Stupidity
• A Religious Blitz on Our Government
• HUMANIST PROFILE | Robert Redford
• The One-Way Quest
• CHURCH & STATE | The Kavanaugh Nomination: How Screwed Are We?
• FIRST PERSON | When Strangers Ask Me
• INSIDE THE WALLS | Prisoners Are Stores of Human Potential
• Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

July / August 2018

• I’ll continue to affirm that this was a failure of the editor.
• Five Fierce Humanists: Unapologetically Black Women Beyond Belief
• White Privilege and Humanist Leadership
• Dance with the Donald
• Theocratic Mercenary Erik Prince and the Christian Right
• The Humanist Interview with Greg Epstein
• Target Practice
• Respecting Religion, Rejecting Discrimination
• Golden’s Rule/Godwin’s Law
• Why “Five Fierce Humanists”?
• Betsy DeVos Wants You to Pay for Someone Else’s Religion
• Beethoven and His Ninth Symphony
• Threads of Humanist History
• A New Day
• A Pervasive Impression of Our Depravity: William T. Vollman’s Carbon Ideologies
• Leonardo da Vinci

May / June 2018

• It’s time to learn a thing or two about consent.
• Checking Humanism’s Privilege and Pulse
• #WeToo?
• Hard to Believe
• Adrift At Sea
• Changing 
Times in 
America’s 
Execution 
Capital
• Good or Bad to the Bone?
• What Consent Means and How to Teach It
• The Fallacy of the Armed Populace as Deterrent
• after the dream act is revoked
• Are We Headed for One Christian Nation under Trump?
• Skepticism—and What It Means to Believe Accusers
• Concerning Bullies
• Escaping the God-Zombies
• It’s Our Turn
• Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom
• Women v. Religion: The Case against Faith—and for Freedom