There are crimes that test nearly everything we believe about humanity. There are acts of violence so cruel, so deliberate, and so devastating that it…
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Category: Humanism
When There Is No Heaven: A Humanist Response to Grief, Death, and Dying
One of the hardest questions humanism has to face is also one of the oldest questions human beings have ever asked: What do we do…
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Homelessness Is Someone’s Problem — Ours
Homelessness is an uncomfortable subject. Most of us, I hope, want to help. We do not want people sleeping beneath overpasses, living in tents beside…
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Crafting a Humanist Wedding: Ritual, Symbol, and the Celebration of Love
There is something profoundly human about a wedding. Long before we divide ceremonies into religious and secular, traditional and modern, sacred and civil, there is…
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Carl Sagan and the Humanist Vision: Wonder, Reason, and the Pale Blue Dot
There is a persistent misunderstanding about humanism that reduces it to what it does not believe. Humanists are sometimes described primarily as people who reject…
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A Short Definition of Humanism
I’ve written before about what humanism means, how it can be defined, and what it asks of us, and I am sure I will return…
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Humanism Before the Adjectives: Ethical, Secular, and Spiritual Humanism
Humanism is one of those words that becomes more complicated the moment we begin attaching adjectives to it. We speak of secular humanism, ethical humanism,…
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Borders Without Brutality: America’s Immigration Crisis
Immigration has become one of the most emotionally charged questions in American public life. It is spoken about in the language of invasion and resistance,…
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Love and the Humanist
Love is often treated as religion’s greatest possession, as though only faith can give it depth, sanctity, or meaning. Humanism rejects that idea. Love does…
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Finding Meaning in Our Lives
Human beings seem almost unable to avoid the question of meaning. At some point, whether in youth or in grief, in success or in emptiness,…
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