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April 06, 2020
Aspirational Humanism and Contradictory Real-World Practice
Let's begin with a story. I didn't share one last week, because I was still...
March 2020
March 23, 2020
“Sore Winners”: Centring Humanism, not Atheism, amid Pandemic
Let's begin with a story. Colombia is about to undergo two weeks of mandatory lockdown,...
March 16, 2020
Carrying Trauma as a Community: A Humanist’s Hope and Battleground
Let's begin with a story. Teaching requires great emotional dexterity whether it's in Colombia or...
March 08, 2020
In the Shadow of Other Stories: Atheist History, Humanist Present
Let's begin with a story. This is a distillation of the first conversation I often...
March 01, 2020
Listening: A Vital, If Undervalued Tool for Humanists
Let's begin with a story. This one's part-personal-update, part-lesson (I hope) about how some of...
February 2020
February 23, 2020
When Silence Awaits Us Instead
Let's begin with a story. These last few months I've been interrogating a lot of...
February 16, 2020
Why “Diversity” Isn’t Enough in Humanist Storytelling
Let's begin with a story. Back when I was precocious twit--a kid in grade three...
February 09, 2020
What Bilingualism Teaches Us About the Limits of Anti-Theism
Let's begin with a story. I have a cautionary reaction to sudden, increased attention that...
February 02, 2020
What’s the Point of Being a Good Humanist in a Mucked-Up World?
Let's begin with a story. It's the one where everything's going wrong: zoonosis has triggered...
January 2020
January 19, 2020
“Words Can Never Hurt Us”? Our Selectivity with When Words Matter
Let's begin with a game. Quick! What do all of the following have in common:...
January 15, 2020
What We Talk About When We Talk About Gender: Lessons from a Recent Incident in Secular Storytelling
Let's begin with a story. When I was a kid the major sex columnist, the...
January 12, 2020
How To Weaponize Anything: Problematizing the Secular World
Let's begin with a word. This one might be my least favourite: problematic. I once...
January 04, 2020
Stories We Will Spend A Lifetime Outgrowing: On Gender Stereotypes and Humanism
Let's begin with a story. This one is Toni Morrison's, from Song of Solomon (1977): It's...
December 2019
December 31, 2019
Humanism 2020: Less “Misery Porn,” More Empirical Empathy
Let's begin with a story. The day after Christmas, I was stocking up for this...
December 22, 2019
Do We Live As If There Is No God? Secular Humanism’s Focus
Let's begin with a story. This one comes from In the Dark, Season 2, which outlined...
December 17, 2019
Gratitude Woes: What Colombia Keeps Teaching Me About Being “Enough”
Let's begin with a story. My end-of-year work party probably looked a bit different from...
December 09, 2019
Humanism and Suicidal Ideation: A Secular Struggle for Agency
Let's begin with a warning. I strive always to remind readers when I am not...
December 04, 2019
Beyond the Biological: Why Humanists Must Be Leery of “Inner Drive”
Let's begin with a story. When I lived in Southern Ontario, my most heart-heavy season...
November 2019
November 29, 2019
The End of an Era? How A Humanist Might Measure Time
Let's begin with a meme. That's all stories are, really: more elaborate units of information...
November 22, 2019
Fear of My Fury: When a Humanist Needs to Be Angry
Let's begin with a story. Yesterday I wrote about the national strike in Colombia, which...
November 21, 2019
Colombia on Strike: A Lesson in the Similarity of Global Issues
Let's begin with a story. Today Colombia is on strike. In the wake of recent...
November 17, 2019
Allergy Intolerance: A Lesson in Being Wrong as a Humanist
Let's begin with a story. When I was a child, Canadian culture was a touch...
November 15, 2019
Rethinking “Sour Grapes”: A Humanist Reframing of Failure and Failures
Let's begin with a story. One of the most misunderstood Aesop's fables is now also...
November 09, 2019
The Context of Our Suffering: Lessons from the Wounded in Colombia
Let's begin with a story. I wrote my last essay on shame, but it and...
November 04, 2019
Shame & Humanism: Why Our Wounds Matter More Than Our Cosmology
Let's begin with a story. Or, rather, a continuation of one. In my last essay,...
October 2019
October 31, 2019
On the Supposedly Rampant Liberalism of Contract-Labour Academia
Let's begin with a story. I struggled a long while with the wounds of leaving...
October 27, 2019
Secular Gods-of-the-Gaps: Žižek, Joker, & Tribes Built On Tribelessness
Let's begin with a story. Oh, yeah, I bet plenty of you saw "Žižek" in...
October 24, 2019
Our Activism Is More Conservative Than You Might Think
Let's begin with a story. I was raised in a politically active (Canadian) conservative household,...
October 17, 2019
Of Primates and Behavioural Politics: Why Humanism Needs to Transcend Religious vs. Atheistic Discourse
Let's begin with a story. I spent the bulk of my (Canadian-Thanksgiving-in-Colombia!) long weekend working...
October 08, 2019
Whose Community-Care? Men in Secular Self-Help Discourse
Let's begin with a story. This one's Dr. Brené Brown's, but it also marks the...
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