The Problem with “With Us or Against Us” Rhetoric
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has observed the phenomena of all or nothing approaches to discourse. To put it another way, if we disagree in just one […]
Author Archives: Wendy Webber
Grappling with Comfort & Death as a Humanist
Recently, I heard a story about a man who is in prison and has been denied a request to have doctors help him end his life. (This is in Belgium […]
An Atheist Explores Evangelical Christianity in Its Own Words: Interview w CRU Leader Matt Baehr
As far as I can tell, a fundamental tenant of Humanism is an agreement on the inherent equality of all people. For me, this means a responsibility to realize that […]
Getting Youth to Take Action: Interview w/ Frank Fredericks, Founder of World Faith
Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith whose mission is to build a globally movement of religiously-diverse youth to counter religious violence and end global poverty. World Faith is […]
Santa Muerte: Remembering Saints Are People Too
Though I’m not religious, I have a bit of an obsession with saints. I’m talking the Catholic ones. I love their individual stories. I love their collective history. I love […]
‘Minority Experience’ is Common Ground in Interbelief Dialogue
Beliefs are a difficult subject for people to bond over if they are coming from different belief systems. Where to begin? Never start with the divinity of Christ. Polytheism? Whether […]
Humans Are Weird, & Other Lessons From Animal Behavior: Interview w Dr. Laurie Santos
Two weeks ago was the Yale Humanist Community’s first ever Humanist Haven, a monthly nonreligious community gathering. The first speaker at the first meeting was Dr. Laurie Santos, a professor […]
Survival Achieved–Now What?
Humans, as a species, no longer struggle to survive. We survive. Arguably too well. We inhabit almost every corner of the globe and have figured out how to survive in […]
Why I Love Being Uncertain
We, humans, seem to be afraid of uncertainty. Or to put it another way, we yearn for complete certainty. But why? Oddly, science and religion, using their broadest notions, have […]
Questioning the Standard Life Cycle of an Atheist
I’ve been an atheist all my life, but I didn’t notice until I was in high school. I didn’t notice because it never felt like a big deal. I didn’t […]
Applied Sentience 