In Ghana I’m White
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I was always the only brown kid in my class. Growing up in a town of fewer than four thousand that counted demographics by person […]
Lessons and Themes from Common Ground 2015
The collective IQ at Common Ground 2015 is higher than average—and the attendants seem to know it. Bouncing off the walls of College Ave’s spacious Student Center, one hears conversations […]
Cooking in Bimbilla, Ghana
By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer As a daughter of patriarchy, I have logged more than my share of hours in the kitchen. I helped out with 400-person banquets to […]
Making More Interesting Stories: Conversation w a Culture Critic, Pt I
When Quentin Tarantino’s Vulture interviewer expressed surprise at his fondness for The Newsroom, the Aaron Sorkin drama many critics loved to hate, he replied: “Who the fuck reads TV reviews? […]
Camp Quest and Consent Education
Camp Quest is a wonderful organization and if you haven’t heard of it, you should look it up! Basically, it’s a week-long summer camp where you do all the typical […]
“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 […]
The Sacred & the Secular: Common Ground is Worth Finding
By Barry Klassel Humanist Chaplain at Rutgers University Despite an ingrained skepticism – and even revulsion – on the part of some at the thought of dialogue across the sacred/secular divide, there […]
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, […]
Applied Sentience 