David Breeden | September 29, 2008

Why might that be
That the universe
Needs
A local habitation
And a name?
Why might that be
That all that is
Needs
A pet name and
A personality?
Why might that be
That mystery
Needs
Turned to our ends?
To our purposes?
Why might that be
That our
Needs
Demand a personality
And a name?
Why might that be
That we
Need
Gods when all
That is is?

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Paul Hostovsky | September 23, 2008

I remember a moment
when I was 5
and peeing under a tree
and thinking about
life
and about bodies–
my body
emptying itself
under the body
of that tree,
the huge
house of it
as I looked up
through the muscular
branches which seemed
as thick around as grown
men,
and I remember
looking down and seeing
directly across from me
another body–
a tiny black
foraging
body–
I was still peeing
as I followed it
with my eyes
traversing the [...]

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Michael W. Jones | September 18, 2008

Co-Dean of the Humanist Institute.
Carol Wintermute’s undergraduate work was at Denison University in Ohio where she received a Bachelor or Fine Arts degree. She did post-graduate work in psychology at the University of Minnesota. Her graduate studies were in family social science at Minnesota where she completed the course work for a MA [...]

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Marilyn Westfall | September 11, 2008

Ronald Aronson is the author of Living Without God New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists and the Undecided.
Ronald Aronson is Distinguished Professor of the History of Ideas at Wayne State University and the author or editor of nine books, including Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It, [...]

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E. Shaun Russell | September 2, 2008

How clever, he who thought to name a sin
For many things to which we’re so inclined,
Since after all, such things must be defined
As devilish before we can begin
To shed our natures like a serpent’s skin,
And give our souls to God; but we’re designed
To smile and nod and say that we don’t mind,
While countless agonies recoil [...]

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