By Alhassan Baako Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In my opinion, life without formal education is meaningless. Growing up as a child, my immediate guidance counselors were my parents and the various classroom […]
By Warren Alan Tidwell Humanist Service Corps Volunteer The road to Bolni is as bad a road as I’ve been on in Ghana. It takes thirty minutes to reach the village once […]
By Lukeman Adams Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In the 1996 when electricity was scarce in northern Ghana and only two years old in my hometown (Bole), lanterns were the major source of […]
By Wendy Webber The Humanist Service Corps is partnered with Songtaba, a local organization committed to the realization of the aspirations and rights of women and children in the northern […]
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 […]
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 […]
Public education is important—this much is beyond dispute. But besides that one understatement, everything else is fair game. As a core cog in American life, as a political and ideological […]
By Conor Robinson Humanist Service Corps Program Coordinator From July 2013 – June 2014, I oversaw Pathfinders Project, a yearlong international service trip sponsored by Foundation Beyond Belief as the […]
In her late 2011 Atlantic cover story “All the Single Ladies,” Kate Bolick makes the case to stop treating unmarried (and often professional, highly educated) women as anomalies or deviants—not […]
A few posts ago, I argued for the importance of widespread scientific literacy. I claimed that “scientific literacy—in conjunction with political, mathematical, and other literacies—is a civic responsibility”. For symmetry’s […]
