David’s manuscript on humanist liturgy is available here: “Congregating for Secular People: Theory and Practice”
Here comes 2025! Is every holiday season and turn of the year like this? For some reason, THIS year, I need reminders that I can still make choices in my life, no matter what’s swirling in the world around me. With the help of my community, I can still make the best of it. These words of F. Scott Fitzgerald… Read More »Words For These Times: Issue 3
In the words of Isabel Call: “It may be uncomfortable to hear about ‘the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture’ as you prepare for your Thanksgiving festivities. We celebrate Thanksgiving because gratitude is essential to human life. But grief is essential for healing our history of violence. It’s… Read More »Words For These Times: Issue 1
It is a common mistake to assume that humanism is an atheistic “ism.” We Humanists tend to have unconventional ideas of deity, but not only (or even primarily) negative ones. There is no pope of Humanism. Practices vary. Humanist honor every person and every person’s attempts to find meaning and purpose in this life, including trying on various styles of… Read More »Symbols, Gods, and Humanists
Living, being, is the activity of a maker, a crafter. You.
taking the long view
It’s all according to perspective.
Democracy is one messy spiritual practice!
What do we do when we don’t have symbols?
Exploring I/Thou, I/It, and I & I.
If the burned-over summer of 2023 has taught us anything, surely it is that we human beings need to start loving the earth more. Or else.
