One of the biggest challenges facing us today is the idea that we can make it alone. Individualism is a major ingredient of things like white supremacy, resistance to universal health care, and our small... Read More

As the leader of a predominantly humanist Unitarian Universalist congregation, I am asked every day—both literally and by my actions—to define humanism. What is humanism? What do humanists believe? What do humanists do because we... Read More

Ron Millar is the coordinator of the Center for Freethought Equality and the Freethought Equality Fund PAC (political action committee). He has spent more than thirty years in the Washington, DC, area working for nonprofit education and... Read More

Charles “Chuck” Debrovner, MD, is a board member of The Humanist Institute, the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and Global Bioethics Initiative, as well as past president of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Chuck was the former chair... Read More

The early-twentieth-century American writer and historian James Truslow Adams once said, “There are two educations: one to show us how to make a living and the other how to live.” The Humanist Institute (THI) is... Read More

I believe humanism has the potential to change the world. When I was studying for my doctorate and traveling the United States giving presentations on humanism, I wanted to find a way to make humanist leadership... Read More

It’s been thirty-three years since I first stepped into the New York Society for Ethical Culture building on Central Park West and Sixty-Fourth Street. I had no idea on that day how joining the first... Read More