Clik here to view.
Become a Pathfinder, Change the World
We live in a world of plenty, but billions live in want. Some 780 million people lack access to clean water – the most basic of necessities – while 3.4 million people a year – almost a whole Los...
View ArticleExorcism: Regret
In this occasional series of posts I seek to exercise compassion toward myself, drilling deep into my own psyche to try to identify – and exorcise – harmful parts of my emotional makeup.Love, I don’t...
View ArticleSecular Service in the Appalachians
The Humanist Graduate Community at Harvard is fundraising for our fourth annual Spring Break Service Trip. We are looking for help to reduce flight costs and to enable us to take a full group of...
View ArticleWhy Would Atheists Want To Attend an Interfaith Service?
In the aftermath of the bombs which recently tore through Boston, the governor’s office organized an interfaith service to attempt to begin the healing process of the city. In my last post I detailed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I.D.I.C., Find Out What it Means to Me: A Trekkie’s Search for Self Love
Since Star Trek: Into Darkness is launching this week, I thought I’d repost this article I wrote for In Our Words, a Queer collective Blog. It’s not appropriate for kids!They told me not to visit the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View Article