The Humanist Archives

September / October 2019

• Skip the schadenfreude buffet and dig in to some humanism.
• Secular Students Are Leading the Way
• Living Humanist Values: The Ten Commitments
• Life and Why It Must Continue
• Of Gods & Bosses
• Living to Live: Rethinking Work & Idleness
• Mottos, Prayers, Courses, and Clubs
• A Humanist Take on the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom
• CHURCH & STATE | Vouchers Pose a Threat to Public Schools and to the Public Good
• HUMANISM 101 | Predicting the Future by Making It
• FIRST PERSON | From Young-Earth Creationist to Full-Time Humanist
• HUMANISM & THE ARTS | The Terribly Prescient Genius of Sam Shepard’s True West
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | Who Needs a Wall When We Have Epistemic Closure?
• The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
• The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
• What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life

July / August 2019

• To change everything, we need everyone.
• Climate Justice: The Minnesota Model for Building a Better Future for Us All
• Imperial Borders and Mythical Frontiers
• Keep “God” and Theocrats Out of Our Wombs
• Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?
• Theocracy Watch: A Christian 51st State?
• CHURCH & STATE | If You Want Social Justice, Work For Church-State Separation
• FIRST PERSON | Dehumanized and Still Holding onto Jesus
• INSIDE THE WALLS | Reform 2.0: Love and Money
• HUMANISM 101 | End Cash Bail
• A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
• Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
• This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
• Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court

May / June 2019

• An Eschatological View of Climate Change: Bring It On
• Before and After the Court: The Humanist Interview with Monica L. Miller
• “America First” All over Again?
• What’s Really behind Evangelicals’ Climate Denial?
• Exploring the Historical Roots of Religious Freedom
• Celebrating 200 Years of Walt Whitman
• The Southern Baptist Convention’s Gospel of Rape and Redemption
• “Narrow Rulings” Mean Little to the Christian Right
• CHURCH & STATE | Denied the Right to Care
• FIRST PERSON | Nietzsche in New Guinea
• INSIDE THE WALLS | These Words Unspoken
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | Is It Ethical to Leave a So-So Marriage?
• Underground: A Human History of the Worlds beneath Our Feet
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
• Can American Capitalism Survive?

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