Why Baseball is like Humanism
By Tarikul Islam (New York University) This past semester I audited a popular NYU class called Baseball as a Road to God. The course used classic literatures to connect baseball […]
An Update on the Kukuo Health Screening Project
By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In a piece a while back, I had talked at length about a health screening and medical records project being undertaken in Kukuo by […]
On Departure
Can I come back home? Will you receive me if I do? Will all I collected make up for the time I missed with you? As the time for departure […]
Two Panthers: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Imagery of Power
My last post notwithstanding, I emerged from Captain America: Civil War neither Team Cap nor Team Iron Man but thoroughly Team T’Challa, the Black Panther. Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa has perhaps […]
Mental Healthcare Access, Stigma, and Discrimination
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I’m bipolar. There’s a lot of debate about whether to say “I am bipolar” or “I have bipolar disorder”, but the way I perceive the […]
What Alternative is There? Hope and Resiliency in Kukuo Village
By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer The people in my life who know me have always told me that resiliency is among my strongest traits. In my family, we refer […]
Neo-humanism and PROUT: Alternative Pedagogy
by Milly Sil, Rutgers University Neohumanism will give new inspiration and provide a new interpretation for the very concept of human existence. It will help people understand that human beings, […]
Announcing next year’s team and program developments!
By Conor Robinson Humanist Service Corps Program Coordinator When I first began planning for the launch of the Humanist Service Corps, I assumed that I would need to spend at […]
A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground: Imagining a Humanist Approach to Prayer
By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground”- Rumi To some extent I envy religious people. A careful reading of a Braver […]
The Safest Hands: Marvel’s Civil War and the Education of Tony Stark
It may be tempting to think of Captain America: The Winter Soldier as the most “grounded” or even “realistic” movie Marvel’s ever done. Partly this is because its story about […]
Applied Sentience 