Finding the Sacred in Service to Others
Being an interfaith chaplain, I attend many events that are focused on multireligious education and dialogue, and lead several such events with my own students. A very popular activity for these […]
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 […]
Death is Not the End: How Humanists Can Think About the ‘Afterlife’
I believe in the human spirit. When I say “spirit”, I really mean “spirits”. And when I say “spirits”, I really mean what you might think of as “ghosts”. Not […]
Humanists & Atheists Represent at People’s Climate March
Atheists and Humanists care about social and environmental justice! A surprising statement for far too many Americans. Do atheists even care about anything besides internet shouting matches? Isn’t Separation of […]
Embracing Identities: Stories of Coming Out Queer & Faithless — Call for Participants
Storytelling is a powerful tool for social change and building community. The Embracing Identities Project is searching for personal stories of coming out as LGBTQ and atheist in a variety of […]
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 […]
Multi-University Launch & Call for Staff Writer Applications
Applied Sentience, a next generation humanist thinkblog, is expanding nationally! Our list of participating universities now includes all six university humanist communities at American, Columbia, Harvard, Rutgers, Stanford, and Yale. Our inaugural editorial board consists of leading humanist […]
Making Better Use of Humanity’s Most Valuable Resource: Good Ideas
Srinivasa Ramanujan has an interesting life story. As a child in India, Ramanujan was a mathematical prodigy, but lacked access to teachers who could help him exploit that brilliance. Instead, he […]
The Soul Fallacy: An Interview w Psychology Prof Julien Musolino
It’s not everyday you get to meet someone like Rutgers professor Julien Musolino. In our age of specialization, Julien is part of a small (but growing!) cadre of thinkers whose […]
Is Humanism a Religion?
Like other difficult questions, there are no clear answers to the old debate of whether or not Humanism is a religion. Here the crux of the problem seems to stem […]
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