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Sort of Like “Camp Quest” for Grownups – Adventures in Humanist Community!
Edit: I’ve been asked to make clear that the reference to “Camp Quest” in the title of this post was metaphorical – this retreat is sponsored by the American Humanist Association and the American...
View ArticleDan Savage: I’m Not One to Judge
I like Dan Savage. I like him a lot. I think his podcast is extremely funny, his writing witty and deft, and I think the It Gets Better Project – despite its problems – was a stroke of genius. When he...
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Nobody Expects the Atheist Inquisition!
We atheists can be a scrappy bunch. We like to argue, to dissect ideas, to question language. So when I posted the following, as an ecstatic Facebook update during a night of wild dancing, I expected...
View ArticleHow to Check Your Privilege in 5 Excruciating Steps
Recently, I changed my mind. Challenged over my uncritical reposting of a secular argument against abortion, I was forced to examine my assumptions, reflect on my identity, and consider how my actions...
View ArticleDe/Humanization
My first real job was in prisons. As a teenager at university I became a volunteer for the London Shakespeare Workout Prison Project, a charity which performs Shakespeare workshops, and sometimes whole...
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The Art of Social Protest
Protest is an art form: a way of bringing to the surface structural inequality and injustice so that people can glimpse, if only for a moment, the invisible cage which constantly imprisons oppressed...
View ArticleLove, Lust, and the Bible: A Further Response to Matthew Vines
Matthew Vines, author of God and the Gay Christian (and subject of yesterday’s post), kindly responded to my critique on Facebook:Thank you for writing this post and for sharing your perspective about...
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Smash the Closet!
This was the day I came out, at Cafe Lafitte in Exile in New Orleans, Louisiana.It took me ten years to come out. Between the time I sat, crying, in an Italian restaurant at the age of 17, telling my...
View ArticleUnitarian Universalist Association Betrays Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics
Last week the Unitarian Universalist Association – the national organization which represents all Unitarian Universalist churches in the USA, some of which are Humanist congregations, and many of which...
View ArticleQueers: Our Worth is Independent of Theology
This week a conservative evangelical Christian group released the “Nashville Statement,” a transparently homophobic and transphobic screed designed to give theological cover to those who wish to...
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