Ronald A. Lindsay is the former president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry, recent interim general counsel for CFI, and editor of Free Inquiry magazine.| secularhumanism.org
Every assertion I make in this editorial is disputable. It has to be. Otherwise, it has no business being published in a secular humanist journal. Humanists ...| Free Inquiry
Historians of the American experience have spilled oceans of ink attempting to explain the heart and soul of the country, and the attempts to do so will nev ...| secularhumanism.org
Psychologist Robert Abelson writes that the relationship we have with our beliefs shares properties of our association with physical possessions. We may hea ...| secularhumanism.org
“The heart has reasons that reason does not know,” wrote seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal. In the case of empathy, which indeed is an af ...| secularhumanism.org
Most Americans are unlikely to have a medical assistance in dying law available to them in the near future, but other options are available for those facing ...| secularhumanism.org
In 2022, I revealed in an online article for Skeptical Inquirer that I was victimized by a romance scam after the death of my longtime partner. I thought it ...| secularhumanism.org
There comes a time in a man’s life when he must think about the inevitable. When I turned a leaf in 2023, I went online to check the list of notables who di ...| secularhumanism.org
It is fair to say that this fall the attention of most of our readers has been focused on the U.S. presidential election. That election may be over (but per ...| Free Inquiry
Jennifer and Jason Reinoehl of Granger, Indiana, tried to bring about a modern version of the Scopes Trial. In 2023, the couple filed suit claiming that the ...| secularhumanism.org
Every social movement must have a clear vision of its basic interests and goals. Sadly, much of the women’s and feminist movement seems to have lost its way ...| secularhumanism.org
Religion has staked its claim to many aspects of people’s lives for thousands of years. From where, when, and how you practice your faith to your speech, pr ...| secularhumanism.org
About nine months ago, I stopped going to church. It has been the longest time in my life without some kind of faith community. Why did I stop? My honest an ...| secularhumanism.org
There have been many books and articles that define humanism. They all have in common a rejection of supernatural ideas, but typically they don’t define wha ...| secularhumanism.org
“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, As hom ...| secularhumanism.org
Bangladesh, a country rich in cultural and religious diversity, has recently experienced a surge in religious worship spaces, particularly in its bustling u ...| secularhumanism.org
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How toLive, by A. C. Grayling (London, UK: Penguin Random HouseUK, 2024, ISBN: 978-0-99320-0). 426 pp. ...| secularhumanism.org
Israel-Palestine Conflict In writing the cover story, “The Bright Line Between Good and Evil” (FI, April/May 2024), Sam Harris offered a slanted glimpse of ...| secularhumanism.org