Like many of you, I have read a plethora of articles and longer works defining humanism. Each proclaims a different emphasis highlighting various aspects of what is valued by humanists. Some declare humanism to be a religion, a life stance, or a worldview, while others profess it to be a progressive philosophy, an ethical perspective,…
In 2023, celebrating the AHA Center for Education’s 5th Anniversary, we focused on one of the Ten Commitments each month. For November we explored Global Awareness. Travelers and tourists have earned a bad reputation, and for a good reason: many behave carelessly and/or unethically as guests in other lands. How can Humanists avoid reinforcing this…
In 2023, celebrating the AHA Center for Education’s 5th Anniversary, we focused on one of the Ten Commitments each month. For October we explored Humility. Humility is often considered an antiquated virtue. However, modern psychological science confirms ancient wisdom: humility helps improve our relationships, work, and societies. Daryl R. Van Tongeren reviews cutting-edge research on…
How did the West get from religious freedom of choice to compulsion? How did religious ideology go from loving friendship to violent persecution? How could murder in the name of God — an act virtually inconceivable in the Greek and Roman world over the numberless centuries of their existence — ever have been justified, let…
In 2023, celebrating the AHA Center for Education’s 5th Anniversary, we focused on one of the Ten Commitments each month. For June we explored Responsibility. Celebrate World Humanist Day on June 21 with Sarah Bakewell, author of Humanly Possible. We explored the many inspiring figures who put rational inquiry, cultural richness, freedom of thought and…
Nonbelievers are often at a loss when searching for resources on how to get through the mourning process. In this talk, Candace Gorham recounts her personal and professional experiences with grief and loss then shares concrete actions mourners can take to help them process their grief. Candace Gorham is a licensed mental health counselor and author…
In recent years, effort has been made to dismantle white privilege and better represent a diverse range of voices within the humanist movement. In this talk, Pinn poses and aims to explore a set of related questions: What are the results of this diversity work, and how do we measure success on this front? What…
How do we get to be the way we are? Is our behavior largely determined by our environment and how we grew up? Or do we mostly inherit our tendencies from our parents? Philosophers and parents have wrestled with these questions for thousands of years. In the last few decades we’ve actually gotten some scientific…
Religious privilege has, and continues to, shape the discourse about public policies in the United States. Too often this imposes on the civil and human rights of people of color, religious minorities, nonreligious groups, and LGBTQ+ people. This lecture will address our individual and collective responsibility to dismantling systems of oppression that violate our constitutional…
As humanists become increasingly diverse the importance of our awareness of our history grows. Everyone across the world has a place in humanistic history and thought, but how do we go about finding that place? Join Luciano Joshua Gonzalez-Vega, a Puerto Rican scholar & humanist, to answer that question and several more interrelated ones! Luciano…
Celebrate World Humanist Day on June 21! Why did iconic author Kurt Vonnegut describe himself as a “Christ-worshiping agnostic”? Find out in this presentation about the new Humanist Press book Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism. Author Wayne Laufert will explore the values that the freethinking Vonnegut expressed in his fiction and nonfiction. Wayne Laufert is a former newspaper…