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Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels 16 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and activist who promotes a progressive—and aggressive—conception of humanism that is at once feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-classist, and anti-imperialist...
Becoming More Fully Human: Religious Humanism as a Way of Life 16 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
“The human being is by nature a social animal (Ho anthrōpos phusei politikon zōon).” —Aristotle, Politics (see also Nicomachean Ethics) In 2006, three years after retiring as the head of the Meadvill...
A Most Basic Human Right 16 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
“It’s the right to life!” Stamatis insisted, raising his voice in a deliberate display of pomposity. “What could be a more basic right than that? Even if you conceived of one, how could you enjoy it i...
On Being Honored for Having Gotten Cancer 16 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
So, this awesome and somewhat weird thing has happened. I’ve been named the 2013 Honored Hero by the Foundation Beyond Belief for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Foundation’s Light the Night Walk. This is a ...
Hysteria Alert 16 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
In June the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key provision in the Defense of Marriage Act and dismissed, on technical grounds, a case challenging same-sex marriage in California. The rulings were cons...
Preaching to the Nones 16 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
Upon entering a Sunday Assembly, held in historic York Hall in East London, one could easily assume that these gatherings are yet another attempt to plant a holy hipster church. If you stick around, h...
Regaining Balance 16 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
Humanism within the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has been on the decline for years. Indeed, the UUA has been on the decline itself after having been instrumental in the development of mode...
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: End-of-life Care and Assisted Suicide 16 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
“The End,” an article in the September/October 2013 issue of the Humanist, tells a very personal account of one family’s experience with end-of-life care and death with dignity. Below, you’ll find mor...
The End 16 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
Editor’s note: this article deals with end-of-life care and dying with dignity. Click here for additional material on this sensitive issue. We sat hip to hip on the family room sofa that day holding ...
Love & Death 16 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
Some of the most humanistic films currently being produced are coming out of the Mumbai, India-based Hindi-language film industry popularly known as Bollywood. A prime example is the 2010 movie Guzaar...
