“Oh, You Do Know My Language”: Finding the Poetry in Another Tongue
By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I met a little boy that resembled my features Nappy afro, gap in his smile…. He looked at me and said, “Kendrick you do know […]
Category Archives: Memoirs & Journeys
A Place on Earth: Ritual, Grief, & Mourning as an Atheist, Part IV
Part IV: The Waters That Divide Us When I was five, my father—no doubt exhausted from days of dragging a small child around over-stimulating amusement parks—introduced what he called “hotel days,” […]
Let the Journey Begin: Driving into the Unfamiliar
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Transportation is one of my favorite parts of traveling. Mundane forms of transportation for locals in other countries seem new and unusual to me and […]
Nima, Ghana
By Matan Gold Humanist Service Corps Volunteer An open courtyard. A tin roof rusted red. A useless fan hangs from a wooden scaffold, its cords frayed vine-like. A woman sweeps the yard, […]
Meet the Humanist Service Corps Team
As the team settles in and starts getting to work in Kukuo, it’s time to get to know them a little bit better. Naduah Wheeler Naduah Wheeler is a graduate […]
A Place on Earth: Ritual, Grief, & Mourning as an Atheist, Part 3
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 […]
Witchcraft and Malaria: Lessons from Malawi
After living in a Malawian village for a year, I find myself in the doctor’s office just three days after my return home to California. My mother is worried I’ve […]
A Place on Earth: Ritual, Grief, & Mourning as an Atheist, Part 2
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, […]
Coming Out Queer & Godless w Aadil Salam, Pt 2: Coming to American & Coming Out
Storytelling is a social catalyst and powerful force for change. The Embracing Identities Project is a series of narrative interviews about coming out as LGBTQ and atheist in a variety of communities. […]
A Place on Earth: Ritual, Grief, & Mourning as an Atheist, Part 1
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 […]
Applied Sentience 