Recently added articles from The Humanist:
Humanist profile: Priscilla Robertson (1910-1989).(Biography)
May 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The first thing I desire for my children is a kind of openness to experience. I hardly know whether to call this openness the ability to love or the ability to perceive truth, for it is both:' Priscilla Robertson was born Priscilla Smith in ...
Offensive defense.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Rabbi Michael Lerner begins his article ("Israel in Gaza" March/April 2009) by stating: "Israel's attempt to wipe out Hamas is understandable" and then continues to explain why the Israelis' subsequent actions are not smart, not appropriate, and so on. I've heard and read this same logic a ...
Another brand of evangelism?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... In "Presenting Humanism" (March/ April 2009) Jende Huang suggests that the Golden Rule is "hard wired" in humankind; I submit that it is indoctrinated. It occurs to me that evangelism offers the possibility of projecting one's own values onto others and is at odds with the ...
More than a pain in the neck.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Luis Granados' article, "Who Killed Neff Beagley?" (March/April 2009), was well done but contains one small error. He notes that scrofula is a disease of the neck now treated with penicillin, but scrofula is ...
The issue at hand.
May 01, 2009; ... THE OTHER DAY my four-year-old told me she'd learned about gravity at school. When I asked her to tell me what gravity was she answered, "things float. Now unless the preschoolers got into orbital gravitation or the like, I assumed she'd gotten it wrong. And while this may not be the best ...
Let's talk about dying.(Up Front)(Final Exit Network)
May 01, 2009; ... ON FEBRUARY 25, 2009, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested four members of an alleged "assisted suicide ring" called the Final Exit Network. The GBI conducted an undercover operation for nearly a year, eventually carrying out searches of fourteen sites in nine different states. For ...
Seen and heard.(Up Front)
May 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "[T]here is one law that binds all great religions together. Jesus told us to 'love thy neighbor as thyself.' The Torah commands, 'That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.' In Islam, there is a hadith that reads 'None of you truly believes ...
External damnation: companies are designed for destruction.(Up Front)
May 01, 2009; ... FOUR MILLION LOST JOBS into the recession, insult has been added to injury. The Peanut Corporation of America, nut supplier to Kellogg and the lower-rent peanut butters, deliberately sold peanuts contaminated with the salmonella bacterium--not once but twelve times in the last two years ....
[Cartoon].(Up Front)(Cartoon)
May 01, 2009; ... BONUSES?!! ARE YOU MAD?! YOU ARE AN OVERPAID, GREEDY, FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE, OUT-OF-TOUCH-WITH-MAIN-STREET ...
25 years ago....(Classic Humanist)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... May/June 1984 Amusing is the naive humanism" of today's fundamentalist-oriented politicians: blaming previous administrators for unbalanced budgets and depressions taking full credit for business upturn--all in disregard of what was once an inexorable act of God, the business ...
50 years ago....(Classic Humanist)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... May/June 1959 A World Conference on Religion and Freedom met in Dallas, April 17-19, 1959. The faiths represented were Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, and Mohammedanism. In one session, at least, the main difficulty was to get the panelists to show the specific ...
[Cartoon].(Up Front)(Cartoon)
May 01, 2009; ... TOXIC ASSET THAT CAN'T BE REMOVED ...
Lockdown: are teens (and taxpayers) paying the price at Christian reform schools?
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE YEAR WAS 1986. I was a somewhat normal sixteen-year-old, enjoying the Southern California summer weather, trips to the beach, and preparing to start my junior year of high school in Orange County. However, my puberty-driven rebellious behavior was ...
Attendance Check.(Poetry)(Poem)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... <Pre> Attendance Check Swapping cigarettes, jabs, chips,they drift like Rockaway wavesfrom the boys home into the classroom,ninth graders no one would bet on,discarded by split parents. The deck of misfortune they inheritedkeeps shoving them to grow ...
School spirit.(Bible literacy)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "[The Bible] is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authorship can survive the reading of it." --William James, in response to a 1904 survey on religious belief IN THE FOUR YEARS of Mohammad Hossein ...
Operation Babylift: an adoptee's perspective.
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN APRIL 1975, under the manufactured threat of a mass slaughter of infants and children by advancing North Vietnamese forces, Western relief agencies and orphanages in South Vietnam, and finally the U.S. government, pressed into action a daring "rescue" ...
Rational Sunday school.
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT'S SUNDAY MORNING at a community center in a suburb of Portland, Oregon. A group of children, age four to twelve, form a half circle, their mouths ajar and eyes wide, staring at the man in front of them. He performs a magic trick as part of the day's ...
The Humanist interview with Eboo Patel.(Interview)
May 01, 2009; ... EBOO PATEL is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit working to build mutual respect and pluralism among religiously diverse young people. He received his doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where ...
Faith and freedom: what's conservative about school prayer?(Church & State)
May 01, 2009; ... CONSERVATIVES are for less government, right? They favor a flee-market approach to business, as little government regulation as possible, and low taxes. They vow to get the government off our backs. Except when it comes to religion. According to some conservatives at least, the ...
The truth.(Media Watch)
May 01, 2009; ... THE MOTTO at my local National Public Radio news station is, 'Somewhere between the left and the right lies the truth--that's where you'll find us." I've always been annoyed by this trite bit of self-aggrandizement. It's not just because it's silly. It's because the truth is the truth. ...