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Reason vs Religion at Rutgers: Julien Musolino Debates Mark Baker
I don’t go to public debates nearly as much as I should. This is just one of the many things I learned from attending the The Veritas Forum last night, sponsored by the InterVarsity Multi-Ethnic...
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Of Hidden Gods: Sometimes Absence of Evidence IS Evidence of Absence
I love this popular little mantra: the absence of evidence isn’t the evidence of absence, also known as the fallacy of the argument from ignorance. If you’re not already familiar with it, it claims...
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Santa Muerte: Remembering Saints Are People Too
Though I’m not religious, I have a bit of an obsession with saints. I’m talking the Catholic ones. I love their individual stories. I love their collective history. I love the canonization process. I...
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Getting Youth to Take Action: Interview w/ Frank Fredericks, Founder of World...
Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith whose mission is to build a globally movement of religiously-diverse youth to counter religious violence and end global poverty. World Faith is an...
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Confessions of a Disoriented Young Humanist
By Alex Abbott American University My life is not a stained glass portrait of precise, crystalline ecstasy. It is a collage of murky grays, spectrums of sepia, tones of icy blue cynicism, hints of...
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The Top Three Political Battles Facing the Secular Movement This Year
With the religious rights’ stranglehold on the Republican Party, the results of the mid-term elections left few friends of secularism in Congress. The so-called “party of no” got straight to work...
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Coming Out Queer & Godless w Melanie Brewster: Don’t Tell Your Grandmother
Storytelling is a social catalyst and powerful force for change. The Embracing Identities Project is a series of narrative interviews about coming out as LGBTQ and atheist in a variety of communities....
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Why the Buddha is a Better Modern Role Model Than Jesus
Jesus says a lot of great things – don’t get me wrong. But too often he, at best, fails to comment on some of the most important issues of the 21st Century. At worst, he perpetuates a morality we...
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Coming Out Queer & Godless w Aadil Salam, Pt 2: Coming to American & Coming Out
Storytelling is a social catalyst and powerful force for change. The Embracing Identities Project is a series of narrative interviews about coming out as LGBTQ and atheist in a variety of communities....
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Why We, as Atheists, Started a Fundraiser for Christians at Charleston
There is a stigma that non-religious people are selfish, immoral, and do not volunteer. This is probably due to several reasons, but one could be that non-religious people may donate individually and...
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Why Would An Agnostic Do Interfaith Work?
For as long as I can remember, I have felt that there was something in the universe that was greater and more magnificent than I could ever be as an individual. As a child, and as a Christian, I called...
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Television to the Rescue: Secularism, Islam, and TV in Modern Bangladesh
By Tarikul Islam (New York University) I love watching movies – I know, a shocker, right? Recently, I found out that a Bangladeshi film closed at the prestigious Busan International Film Festival. I...
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If I Were a Braver American
By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer As a child, I was taught bravery had a gun next to it, at times decked out in army fatigue like GI Joe. An invitation to “Be all you can be” spoke...
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Humanism as a Way of Life: Lalon Fakir & the Baul Tradition of Bengal
By Milly Sil At Rutgers University India is a country possessing rich cultural heritage and folk music has been an integral part of her culture. However, the folk singers of the Bengal region (West...
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Audio Hawk 2: From Colloquy to Hip Hop Sanctuary to Sound Circle- Using Music...
By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Missed a lot of church, so this music is our Confessional. OutKast (Aquemini) About four years ago I stepped into the Ethical Humanist Society of...
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A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground: Imagining a Humanist Approach to Prayer
By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground”- Rumi To some extent I envy religious people. A careful reading of a Braver American and...
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Neo-humanism and PROUT: Alternative Pedagogy
by Milly Sil, Rutgers University Neohumanism will give new inspiration and provide a new interpretation for the very concept of human existence. It will help people understand that human beings, as the...
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Can I come back home? Will you receive me if I do? Will all I collected make up for the time I missed with you? As the time for departure draws near, the inevitable reflection begins, almost consuming...
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Why Baseball is like Humanism
By Tarikul Islam (New York University) This past semester I audited a popular NYU class called Baseball as a Road to God. The course used classic literatures to connect baseball with ideas normally...
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Dogs, Gods, and Chickens
By Jude Lane Humanist Service Corps Volunteer We have officially been involved with this year’s HSC team for three months. I have learned so much about my new country of residence, but I am definitely...
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