For better or for worse, an essential part of the news writing craft involves the judicious use of space. In headlines, this compression involves dropping articles, appositives, and adjectives. In […]
“I am not who you think that I am,” says Kumaré, an Indian guru with a long beard and long hair, wearing a white robe and strings of red beads. […]
Ideal Investigations; Competing Explanations How do we ‘go about’ learning? Well one of the ways we can answer this is relatively straightforward. There are tons of methods we can use. […]
The recent persecution of atheists in Muslim-majority countries like Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh has prompted some hand-wringing and mild-mannered protests in secularist communities. Nonbelievers, as a rule, just don’t think of themselves […]
I am not religious. Despite this, I often find myself in many Catholic churches due to the socio-cultural legacy of my family. And were it not for the fact that […]
A while ago I had a little debate with an old friend of mine over e-mail. He said, I simply can not accept the notion that Islam is a religion […]
My grandmother is a tough woman – tougher than I’ll ever be. I, for one, do not envy her having had to raise five kids on an elementary school teacher’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Michael De Dora CFI Representative to the United Nations A young person, after being raised within a traditionally religious and authoritative family, begins to question the veracity of the […]
Applied Sentience 