Atheist & Gay: Double Jeopardy… or Opportunity?
By David Madison, PhD Biblical Studies Two Weddings The message on our placard was straightforward: “It’s Not Complicated: I Want to Marry the Man I Love. Case Closed.” My husband […]
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Do We Owe Anything to the Poor? Rutgers’ Event w. Prof Thomas Pogge
By Jimmy Goodrich, Rutgers University What obligations do we have to the worst off among us? Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, recently lectured […]
Three Atheists Walk into an Interfaith Dialogue….
Three atheists walk into an Interfaith dialogue… three opinions walk out. The Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers University recently led a group of Rutgers students as a Humanist delegation to the […]
Why Shark Week is Now Utter ‘Bull Shark’: A Shark Lover’s Frustration with the Latest TV Sell Out
By John Artenstein, “The torso has been severed in mid-thorax. There are no major organs remaining…The right arm has been severed above the elbow with massive tissue loss in the […]
Soul Talk: My Experience Researching & Teaching on Souls at Rutgers University
By Dan Ogilvie, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University A Sketch of the Present Debate A front page article in the August 26, 2013, edition of the New York Times reports […]
Are We Climbing the Same Mountain? Secular-Religious Ethical Disagreement and the Peter Singer & Charles Camosy Discussion
By James Goodrich, Rutgers Class of ’14 Many moral philosophers – or at least those who think there are objective facts about what is right and wrong – find widespread […]
US Humanitarian Policy: The Log in Our Own Eye
By Jason Windell For as long as I’ve been alive and for far longer than that, the United States has prided itself on being a champion of not only its people, […]
Rationalizing Rape is What Poisons the Well
By Raj Gopal I remember the first time I found myself in the backseat of a car with a girl, and at some point it occurred to me that […]
Warm Universe, Cold Universe
by Barry Klassel, Humanist Chaplain at Rutgers University It’s almost midnight. Two friends in their twenties walk down the beach toward the water. Behind them, the lights of the city […]
Science Isn’t ‘Straight From The Gut’: A Response to Creationism
By Julien Musolino Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University In a recent piece entitled Creationism Has Merit, Daily Targum columnist Ed Reep explains that “[he] just want[ed] to show the public […]
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