Children have the right to know the truth about how life evolved on earth.
Pepper’s Special Wings shows children aged 4-7 how Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of natural selection works, using easy words and colorful pictures they can understand, but based on an actual scientific case study.
Children will also identify with Pepper’s social struggle, since self-esteem, self-image, bullying, and being teased are recurring childhood themes. Children will see that sometimes being different is what makes them amazing!
A special section for parents gives background information and suggestions for research to share with their children as they mature.
Damned Good Company: Twenty Rebels Who Bucked the God Experts, explores twenty cases, from Socrates to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of heroes who stood up against those claiming to to know the will of God.
In short, Damned Good Company is a Profiles in Courage for humanists.
Some of the twenty heroes of Damned Good Company are well-known: Erasmus, Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Clarence Darrow, Atatürk, Nehru, Steve Biko. Others are not. Each hero is contrasted with a villain of his or her time and place: either a God expert like Martin Luther or a cynical politician like Mussolini, who never believed in God but exploited religion shamelessly to advance his political ambition.
In this deeply revealing and engaging autobiography, Herb Silverman tells his iconoclastic life story. He takes the reader from his childhood as an Orthodox Jew in Philadelphia, where he stopped fasting on Yom Kippur to test God's existence, to his adult life in the heart of the Bible Belt, where he became a legendary figure within America's secular activist community and remains one of its most beloved leaders.
Never one to shy from controversy, Silverman relates many of his high-profile battles with the Religious Right, including his decision to run for governor of South Carolina to challenge the state's constitutional provision that prohibited atheists from holding public office. Candidate Without a Prayer offers an intimate portrait of a central player in today's increasingly heated culture wars. It will be sure to charm both believers and nonbelievers alike, and will lead all those who care about the separation of church and state to give thanks.
The complete text of Thomas Jefferson's original cut-and-paste version of the Gospels, portraying Jesus as a wise but strictly human teacher, deliberately omitting what Jefferson called the "dross": the virgin birth, the miracles, the resurrection, etc. When Jefferson wrote, Christianity was virtually the only show in town. Today, Americans embrace a wide variety of religious belief -- and the lack thereof. A Jefferson Bible for the Twenty-First Century lists candidates for the "best" and "worst" excerpts from a variety of scriptures, including the Hebrew Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavadgita, Buddhist sutras, and the Book of Mormon, and invites reader opinions on the selections.
Introduce Toddlers to the Wonders of Natural Selection
Stephen Perry's Questions About God will be Humanist Press' first collection of poems, appearing in summer, 2013.
Kylie Moran dispenses humanist advice to readers in her local newspaper advice column, A Rational Woman. But when a shock turns her world upside down, is humanist advice enough to keep her going?
Chicago psychologist, Dr. Owen Ross, is a man who after enduring a lifetime of personal pain realizes that his life has become empty and meaningless. Afflicted by an insidious apathy, he no longer cares or feels compassion for others. Upon getting divorced, he reassesses the events that constitute his life, and throughout the course of one day, becomes horrified by his existence. Living in a godless universe, Ross is forced to come to terms with his mother’s suicide, his father’s religiosity, his daughter’s death, and the undisclosed love he has for a female co-worker. Depicting the toils of human existence within the decay of modern society, this novel is a journey into the human soul, examining the greater questions of authenticity, life and death, immortality, and the personal power of transcendence. Regardless of one’s background, the reader will identify with the universal themes that preoccupy us all.
George Erickson - pilot, bricklayer, philanthropist, dentist, welder and author of the pro-science, best seller True North, and Back to the Barrens: On the Wing with da Vinci and Friends plus Time Traveling with Science and the Saints, returns with Eyes Wide Open, a semi-autobiographical anthology of new and published fiction and non-fiction based on a life that began without religion, became deeply involved, but returned to rationality as president of the Minnesota Humanists and a former director of the American Humanist Association, Washington, DC.
With stories like Working Girl, Crystals Lite and The Minnesota Trapper, he addresses the human condition, and with op-eds like Glenn Beck - Where Were You?, Why Horses Laugh, Single-Payer Now! and Parochaid: Sounds Like KoolAid - Tastes Like Bile!, he speaks truth to power across a span of 30 years.
Drawing on sages from Plato to a skeptic named Carlin, Erickson scrutinizes religion, sex, politics, science, nature, humor, death, love and war with his Eyes Wide Open, filling the pages with stories from a life well led.
What is hope? What does it mean? How do we find it and will it make us happy?
Following her husband’s death on 9/11, Nikki Stern challenged herself to find meaning, even as–especially as–a skeptic. Combining research and reflection, she’s arrived at a version of hope that thrives not on certainty, but on possibility.
In a world in which gloomy forecasting abounds, Hope in Small Doses is an anomaly: practical, good-natured, and ultimately uplifting.
Humanism As the Next Step by Lloyd and Mary Morain is a brilliant down-to-earth guide to the Humanist philosophy. It is totally positive and deeply inspiring, written in a style that is easy to read and to understand. This book gives a great introductory overview for the general reader, but even more, its joyful presentation will surely be a delight for the newly aware Humanist who's just discovering that there's actually a name for the earth-oriented, human-focused, non-religious lifestance which they have chosen.
When one rejects supernatural religious belief and follows the logic of their own reasoning, there may be no comfort or reassurance at all in this position; quite the contrary, one's stance might alienate or antagonize significant others, and cause one to feel isolated.
This book is a joyous affirmation of the Humanist philosophy! How comforting to know that there are millions of other Humanists out there! It will serve also to reaffirm the convictions of even a long-time Humanist. And because it's jam-packed with important historical references: names, dates, descriptions and documents, so handy, right at the fingertips, every Humanist leader/speaker/teacher, as well, will find it indispensable. -- Beth Lamont
NASA scientist Reginald J. Exton shares succinctly the evidence that points to the human origin of religions in Make the Break (If You Can). Exton gathers a representative list of events, scientific observations, and religious developments that lead the reader to the eventual realization that there is voluminous evidence that humanity itself created gods and religions to shield itself from the unknown.
The printed book is in magazine format, making its 64 full-color pages—including pictures, charts and graphs—easy to read and comprehend. The ebook version contains links to additional online content, including a forum where readers can communicate with one another.
Exton discusses why religious beliefs are so strongly entrenched in peoples’ thinking and why many maintain these beliefs today. The subsequent chapters list some of the worldwide conflicts that have arisen out of religion; an outline of an astrophysical projection of the ultimate fate of our universe; and offers an alternative to god-based religions that captures the best parts of the various religious rules and philosophies practiced today.
George Erickson - pilot, bricklayer, philanthropist, dentist, welder and author of the pro-science, best seller True North, and Back to the Barrens: On the Wing with da Vinci and Friends plus Time Traveling with Science and the Saints, returns with Eyes Wide Open, a semi-autobiographical anthology of new and published fiction and non-fiction based on a life that began without religion, became deeply involved, but returned to rationality as president of the Minnesota Humanists and a former director of the American Humanist Association, Washington, DC.
With stories like Working Girl, Crystals Lite and the Minnesota Trapper, he addresses the human condition, and with op-eds like Glenn Beck - Where Were You?, Why Horses Laugh, Single-Payer Now! and Parochaid: Sounds Like KoolAid - Tastes Like Bile!, he speaks truth to power across a span of 30 years.
Drawing on sages from Plato to a skeptic named Carlin, Erickson scrutinizes religion, sex, politics, science, nature, humor, death, love and war with his Eyes Wide Open, filling the pages with stories from a life well led.
This is a classic compilation of over 450 classic statements supporting church-state separation by Voltaire, Jefferson, Madison, Margaret Mead, Martin Luther King Jr., philosophers, journalists, novelists, judges, anticlerical European politicians, twenty-six presidents of the United States, and many others. There are also quotes from major judicial decisions.
In this deeply revealing and engaging autobiography, Herb Silverman tells his iconoclastic life story. He takes the reader from his childhood as an Orthodox Jew in Philadelphia, where he stopped fasting on Yom Kippur to test God's existence, to his adult life in the heart of the Bible Belt, where he became a legendary figure within America's secular activist community and remains one of its most beloved leaders.
Never one to shy from controversy, Silverman relates many of his high-profile battles with the Religious Right, including his decision to run for governor of South Carolina to challenge the state's constitutional provision that prohibited atheists from holding public office.
Candidate Without a Prayer offers an intimate portrait of a central player in today's increasingly heated culture wars. It will be sure to charm both believers and nonbelievers alike, and will lead all those who care about the separation of church and state to give thanks.
Nat Hentoff is one of America's most passionate and prominent writers about civil liberties and civil rights. In Living the Bill of Rights, he has taken what is too often thought of as an abstract issue and enlivened it by focusing on representative individuals for whom the Constitution is a vital part of life. As the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan told Hentoff, Americans need to know how "American liberties were won--and what it takes to keep them alive." With characteristic eloquence, Hentoff covers the full range of American life in these inspiring profiles and stories about public and private heroes--Supreme Court Justices William Brennan and William O. Douglas, Dr. Kenneth Clark, and students, teachers, lawyers, and others who challenge assaults on the Bill of Rights.
Reading the published letters of one of the most prolific letter writers on religious liberty can’t help but inspire and instruct others who want to get their own letters published. These effective examples include topics pertaining to the separation of church and state, religious liberty, reproductive freedoms and civil liberties.
George Erickson - pilot, bricklayer, philanthropist, dentist, welder and author of the pro-science, best seller True North, and Back to the Barrens: On the Wing with da Vinci and Friends plus Time Traveling with Science and the Saints, returns with Eyes Wide Open, a semi-autobiographical anthology of new and published fiction and non-fiction based on a life that began without religion, became deeply involved, but returned to rationality as president of the Minnesota Humanists and a former director of the American Humanist Association, Washington, DC.
With stories like Working Girl, Crystals Lite and the Minnesota Trapper, he addresses the human condition, and with op-eds like Glenn Beck - Where Were You?, Why Horses Laugh, Single-Payer Now! and Parochaid: Sounds Like KoolAid - Tastes Like Bile!, he speaks truth to power across a span of 30 years.
Drawing on sages from Plato to a skeptic named Carlin, Erickson scrutinizes religion, sex, politics, science, nature, humor, death, love and war with his Eyes Wide Open, filling the pages with stories from a life well led.
The distinguished historian from the University of Richmond traces the history of church-state separation in the public school, explores the foundations of the First Amendment and warns readers not to be deceived by the renewed arguments for prayer in public schools.
Today, nearly one in five Americans are nonbelievers - a rapidly growing group at a time when traditional Christian churches are dwindling in numbers - and they are flexing their muscles like never before. Yet we still see almost none of them openly serving in elected office, while Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and many others continue to loudly proclaim the myth of America as a Christian nation. In Nonbeliever Nation, leading secular advocate David Niose explores what this new force in politics means for the unchallenged dominance of the Religious Right. Hitting on all the hot-button issues that divide the country – from gay marriage to education policy to contentious church-state battles – he shows how this movement is gaining traction, and fighting for its rights. Now, Secular Americans—a group comprised not just of atheists and agnostics, but lapsed Catholics, secular Jews, and millions of others who have walked away from religion—are mobilizing and forming groups all over the country (even atheist clubs in Bible-belt high schools) to challenge the exaltation of religion in American politics and public life. This is a timely and important look at how growing numbers of nonbelievers, disenchanted at how far America has wandered from its secular roots, are emerging to fight for equality and rational public policy.
This is a classic compilation of over 450 classic statements supporting church-state separation by Voltaire, Jefferson, Madison, Margaret Mead, Martin Luther King Jr., philosophers, journalists, novelists, judges, anticlerical European politicians, twenty-six presidents of the United States, and many others. There are also quotes from major judicial decisions.
Lyle Simpson’s Why Was I Born? explores the psychology underlying religious belief, through the prism of Abraham Maslow’s "Hierarchy of Needs" and the Meyer-Briggs personality typology. Rejecting the easy answers of our society, Simpson addresses profound questions like “Why are we here?”, "How Do We Face Our Own Death?”, "Why Do We Need Others?", and "How do We Make Our Lives Significant?" from a humanist psychological standpoint, making vastly more sense than anyone who tries to answer these questions through our cultural traditions.
The complete text of Thomas Jefferson's original cut-and-paste version of the Gospels, portraying Jesus as a wise but strictly human teacher, deliberately omitting what Jefferson called the "dross": the virgin birth, the miracles, the resurrection, etc. When Jefferson wrote, Christianity was virtually the only show in town. Today, Americans embrace a wide variety of religious belief -- and the lack thereof. A Jefferson Bible for the Twenty-First Century lists candidates for the "best" and "worst" excerpts from a variety of scriptures, including the Hebrew Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavadgita, Buddhist sutras, and the Book of Mormon, and invites reader opinions on the selections.
NASA scientist Reginald J. Exton shares succinctly the evidence that points to the human origin of religions in Make the Break (If You Can). Exton gathers a representative list of events, scientific observations, and religious developments that lead the reader to the eventual realization that there is voluminous evidence that humanity itself created gods and religions to shield itself from the unknown.
The printed book is in magazine format, making its 64 full-color pages—including pictures, charts and graphs—easy to read and comprehend. The ebook version contains links to additional online content, including a forum where readers can communicate with one another.
Exton discusses why religious beliefs are so strongly entrenched in peoples’ thinking and why many maintain these beliefs today. The subsequent chapters list some of the worldwide conflicts that have arisen out of religion; an outline of an astrophysical projection of the ultimate fate of our universe; and offers an alternative to god-based religions that captures the best parts of the various religious rules and philosophies practiced today.
Children have the right to know the truth about how life evolved on earth.
Pepper’s Special Wings shows children aged 4-7 how Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of natural selection works, using easy words and colorful pictures they can understand, but based on an actual scientific case study.
Children will also identify with Pepper’s social struggle, since self-esteem, self-image, bullying, and being teased are recurring childhood themes. Children will see that sometimes being different is what makes them amazing!
A special section for parents gives background information and suggestions for research to share with their children as they mature.
What is hope? What does it mean? How do we find it and will it make us happy?
Following her husband’s death on 9/11, Nikki Stern challenged herself to find meaning in a world she realized offered no guarantees. Her journey to a place of purpose combines research, reflection and much humor.
She finds for herself and offers to the reader a version of hope that thrives on possibility.
Hers is the ultimate "half glass full" outlook. We may be surrounded by gloomy forecasts and inflexible naysayers, but Hope in Small Doses gives us something to work for, which makes it a useful book: practical, good-natured, and ultimately uplifting.
With photography by Cherie Siebert.
This beautiful nontheistic wedding ceremony offers a welcome and poetic alternative to traditional religious services. Featuring a selection of sonnets and poetry, Lamont has devised a ceremony that is both beautiful and dignified, respecting both the bride and groom. It serves well on its own or as a basis for developing your own special ceremony.
This 48-page paperback offers a dignified alternative to traditional religious ceremonies. Lamont provides meditations and eloquent passages of prose and poetry to express appreciation, grief, and farewell for the deceased. In the quest for solace at a time of loss, one can turn to this nontheistic service for comfort and security.
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