Part III: Radical Maps Talking about “mourning as an atheist” presses upon nuanced nerves. There is no singular “atheist” approach to rupture, no ritual towards which we turn in the aftermath […]
By Conor Robinson Humanist Service Corps Program Coordinator From July 2013 – June 2014, I oversaw Pathfinders Project, a yearlong international service trip sponsored by Foundation Beyond Belief as the […]
I love taking common platitudes from rationality and pointing out the exceptions. Why? Because I hate when a short catchy maxim is used incorrectly to belittle others’ rational arguments. The irony […]
In my first “Moral Heroism” post, I argued that empathy isn’t the only trait we need to deal with moral decisions. We also need a sense of “heroism”: The feeling […]
This is the second part in a series. Read Part 1 here. On Firmer Ground My earliest memories of Disney World aren’t so much of it as a tangible place, […]
I’ve written before about the importance of teaching people to see things through the eyes of other people. One commentator pointed out that a quicker way to say “seeing things through the eyes […]
Part I: As They Are, As They Should Be The moment the seatbelt sign turned off, I began pressing the call button for the flight attendant. A statuesque blonde bounded […]
The saying goes: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Rather than a plea to protect infants, the idiom is understood to mean: “don’t reject the essential along with […]
Jesus says a lot of great things – don’t get me wrong. But too often he, at best, fails to comment on some of the most important issues of the […]
Joshua Greene, who visited the Yale Humanist Community on February 5th, is a Princeton-trained philosopher, Harvard professor, and author. He uses the tools of psychology and neuroscience to tackle abstract questions […]
Applied Sentience 