Humanism and Pop Culture Pop culture is massive. If you were to add up all the TV shows, comics, podcasts, pop music, sporting events, video games, movies, books, and memes that make up pop culture…
Humanism and Pop Culture
Humanism and Race
Inside of humanist circles, humanists often regard ourselves as progressive, forward-thinking, logic and science oriented, and concerned with finding equitable and pragmatic solutions to the many challenges humans face globally. Outside of humanist circles, perceptions…
Humanist Parenting
This course introduces many of the developing best practices for raising children without religion. Areas explored include moral development, worldview literacy, influencing without indoctrinating, dealing effectively with religious extended family, understanding mortality, and helping children…
Humanism and/in Hip-Hop
This courses introduces students to the varieties of humanisms in hip-hop culture and asks the question, “What can hip-hop teach humanists about the evolving nature and dimensions of humanism among marginal communities today?” Topics of…
Feminism and Humanism: Women of Color Beyond Faith
In my book Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars, I argue that the literature on secularism and gender does not capture the experiences of women of color negotiating racism, sexism, and poverty in historically…
The Right to Die
The Right to Die – also commonly known as Death with Dignity – refers to the legal right to determine the circumstances of one’s own death. Questions about the details of those circumstances are a…
End of Life Preparation
The role of the Celebrant is to be there for people during life’s passages. Baby naming ceremonies and weddings are usually happy occasions. Dying is sometimes not a happy passage of life. For this reason,…
Bringing Humanism Home
Lesson plans and activities that encourage family interaction! The lesson plans and activities were put together and developed with the idea that parents and children could learn alongside one another about humanism. The plans and…
Humanist Memorial Services
Birth, marriage, death. Celebrants are asked to assist at life’s big transitions. Celebrating a child or a marriage tend to be light, happy occasions, despite the anxieties and stresses of planning. The death of a…
Humanist Wedding Ceremonies
A wedding ceremony brings together many cultural influences, family dynamics, and emotional expectations, as well as logistical challenges. A Celebrant who intends to be helpful to a couple and their families and community as they…
Religious Humanism
Positive Humanism
Positive humanism is an applied secular humanistic philosophy based on the scientific findings of positive psychology that focuses on personal, professional, and societal flourishing. Positive humanism’s focus is almost entirely on promoting positive humanism and…
Philosophy and the Humanist Connection
The Philosophy and the Humanist Connection courses try to help students become philosophical critics. With that in mind, we explore some of the basic areas of humanist philosophy: what is humanism’s view of human nature, of…
Ethics
The ethics courses seek to help students better understand how moral theory and personal decisions intersect at the individual level and the impact this has on how we live our lives. To be a person…
Religion & Spirituality
The Religion and Spirituality courses explore how humanists approach the big questions of life and death. Humanism believes in the dignity of individuals and in their right to develop their own individual personalities and potentials…
Law & Politics
The Law and Politics courses offer an overview of how Constitutional law, politics, and religion interact in unique ways in the United States. It is plain that controversies surrounding religion and its place in modern…
Psychology & Humanism
The Psychology and Humanism courses offer an overview of how psychology can turn the “Mystery of Human Nature” into useful tools for self-improvement and success in life. Throughout the long history of our species, humans…
Science and Humanism
The Science and Humanism courses focus on the idea that a good way to understand the difference between science and pseudoscience and to gain insights into the nature of science as a process of discovery, is…
Humanist Family Life Ceremonies
Humanist Activism & Organization
The Humanist Activism and Organization courses offer an overview of how the modern humanist movement came to be and how it is organized today. These courses also discuss the connection between humanist values and human…