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Comment by Brian Magee on April 9, 2012 at 2:31pm

The Humanist Institute, an affiliate organization of the American Humanist Association, is pleased to announce a new online course is now available. Philosophy and the Humanist Connectionis the Institute’s latest addition to COHE, the Internet’s first website offering interactive courses in humanist thought. 

For more information, click here.

Comment by Brian Magee on April 6, 2012 at 1:34pm

The International Freethought Film Festival has extended the deadline for submission to April 15.

Festivities will run from July 31st to August 5th, 2012 in Denver, Colorado.

For information, visit: http://www.freethoughtfilmfest.org/

Comment by Brian Magee on April 5, 2012 at 2:23pm

A woman has made this humanist box as a gift to someone being confirmed in the Norwegian Humanist Association (they have a secular coming of age ceremony).

You can see the thread with more pictures and explaining how it was made here: http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat&Board...

Comment by Brian Magee on April 3, 2012 at 1:33pm

The AHA is pleased to have received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator. The AHA is also a BBB Accredited Charity and a "Valued Partner" by GuideStar. We're proud of our commitment to accountability and transparency. Thank you to our donors for your support!

Comment by Brian Magee on April 2, 2012 at 12:01pm

In this month's Humanist Hour podcast, experience the Reason Rally, the largest gathering of the secular movement in the world: Author and blogger Greta Christina tells us why she is angry, Taslima Nasrin describes her experience of fighting for secularism in a country from which she has been exiled, Mythbuster Adam Savage describes his definition of reason, with Australian musicians Tim Minchin and Shelley Segal.

For complete details, visit the podcast website at: http://podcast.thehumanist.org/2012/03/the-humanist-hour-72-the-rea...

Comment by Brian Magee on March 28, 2012 at 4:54pm

We do have another group here for our publishing house, Humanist Press: http://www.thinkatheist.com/group/humanist-press

It has just been relaunched as the first humanist/freethought ebook publisher.

The press release can be found here: http://www.americanhumanist.org/news/details/2012-03-humanist-press...

Comment by Brian Magee on March 28, 2012 at 10:10am

AHA Exec. Dir. Roy Speckhardt will be a guest on Armstrong Williams' Right Side Wire radio program at 10:30 a.m. Eastern this morning and can be streamed via the link below. The topic will be "What is Humanism?"

The program is also broadcast daily on WGCV Radio in Columbia, SC, from 4-5:00 PM and Sirius/XM Satellite Radio 128 daily from 7-8:00 PM, WTNT 730 AM/102.9 FM in Washington, DC and Northern Virginia “The Truth” 6-7:00 PM and WGNU 930 AM St. Louis, MO 7-10 PM.

http://www.livestream.com/armstrongwilliams

Comment by Brian Magee on March 27, 2012 at 11:50am

DOES AMERICA VALUE FAITH OVER REASON?

On Monday, March 26, American Humanist Association Executive Director Roy Speckhardt was on Fox News to discuss the recent Reason Rally, as well as humanism and atheism. The video can be seen here.

Comment by Brian Magee on March 26, 2012 at 3:53pm

Book Review of Candidate Without a Prayer, An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt by Herb Silverman

The Atheist Who Ran for Governor of South Carolina

If you didn't know better, you might think that an autobiography of a Jewish atheist living in the Bible belt would be of little interest to anyone other than, say, Jewish atheists living in the Bible belt. If you thought this, Herb Silverman will prove you wrong.

Candidate Without a Prayer gets its title from Silverman's 1990 run for governor of South Carolina. There's no need for a spoiler alert: Silverman lost that race, as would be the case for any open atheist, Jew or Gentile, in South Carolina, where "liberal" is considered anything to the left of Pat Robertson.  (The Palmetto State has a different way of looking at politics and history. When I was in Charleston a few months ago, a tour guide informed me that the "War of Northern Aggression" had nothing at all to do with slavery, but rather was a noble dispute over states' rights.)

To read the rest of the review, click here.

Comment by Brian Magee on March 22, 2012 at 1:29pm

According to this Pew report "nearly three-quarters of [prison] chaplains (73%)...say they consider access to religion-related programs in prison to be 'absolutely critical' to successful rehabilitation of inmates."

http://www.pewforum.org/Social-Welfare/prison-chaplains-exec.aspx

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