Tag Archives: American Humanist Association

Interview with Monica Miller – Legal Director and Senior Counsel, American Humanist Association & Executive Director, Humanist Legal Society

by | December 5, 2019
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By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Monica L. Miller works as the Legal Director and Senior Counsel at the AHA’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center and as the Executive Director of the Humanist Legal Society. Here we talk about her current positions and the current issues for secularism in America through the American Humanist Association. — Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Let’s start with some… Read more »

Interview with Rebecca Hale – Former President, American Humanist Association & Board Member, Humanists International

by | December 2, 2019
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By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Rebecca Hale is an American icon of the humanist movement. She is the Former President of the American Humanist Association, Co-Owner of EvolveFISH.com, Co-Founder of the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs, and a current Board Member of Humanists International (formerly International Humanist and Ethical Union). She became a Member of the American Humanist Association… Read more »

Ask Dr. O 3 – Concerns of the Human Order: Humanists and Non-Humanists at the United Nations

by | November 20, 2019
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— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Dr. David L. Orenstein is a Full Professor of Anthropology at Medgar Evers College of the CUNY (City University of New York) who has authored two books: Godless Grace: How Non-Believers are Making the World Safer Richer and Kinder (2015) and Darwin’s Apostles (2019). In early professional training, Orenstein was a  primatologist, he grew into a prominent… Read more »

Ask Dr. O 1 – Neither O Magazine Nor Oprah Television: A Humanist Goes to the United Nations

by | November 1, 2019
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— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Dr. David L. Orenstein is a Full Professor of Anthropology at Medgar Evers College of the CUNY (City University of New York) who has authored two books: Godless Grace: How Non-Believers are Making the World Safer Richer and Kinder (2015) and Darwin’s Apostles (2019). In early professional training, Orenstein was a  primatologist,… Read more »

An Interview with Roy Speckhardt — Executive Director of the American Humanist Association

by | January 12, 2018
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  By Scott Douglas Jacobsen First, there’s so much terminology on the Web: secularist, progressive, secular humanist, humanist, Unitarian Universalist humanist, atheist, agnostic, even bright and freethinker. What is the standard, straightforward definition of a humanist? Humanism is the concept of being and doing good (for yourself and others) without reference to any gods or… Read more »