On this date in 1912, songwriter Jack Lawrence (né Jacob Louis Schwartz) was born in Brooklyn, NY, the third of four sons of Jewish parents Fruma (Goldman) and...
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As a white, male, overeducated Christian, why do I recoil when the governor gives the state's blessing to what we just accomplished?
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The American Humanist Association created an innovative newsletter, theHumanist.com, as a digital companion to the Humanist print magazine.
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David Orenstein, BS, MLS, MS, Ph.D., is Discipline Coordinator & Tenured Professor of Anthropology at Medgar Evers College/City University of New York.
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Casey Cep on two new books that explore what unbelievers actually believe.
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Most Americans believe in God. But many don't — and their numbers are growing.
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By Paul Theerman, Director. Because medicine deals with the human body, emotions can run high. When the issue is contraception, emotions run even higher.
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A secular age had presumably relegated blasphemy - irreverence toward things sacred - to the realm of obsolete offenses.
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Leonard Milberg's collection of early American Judaica highlights American Jewish contributions to culture of every sort: prose, poetry,...
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Imagine you are a citizen living within an irrational society that has laws which state if you blaspheme god, that you can be persecuted for...
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