The Humanist Hour #218: Vickie Stangl on Etta Semple
We act sometimes as though we think women are new to the freethought movement, to atheist and humanist leadership. We're not. We've been her...
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The Humanist Hour (HH) Audio Podcast is a monthly one-hour talk show produced by the American Humanist Association. Every episode of the HH Audio Podcast explores a different area of humanis...
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20 of 183 episodesThe Humanist Hour #217: Vic Wang and Benita Malone on Humanists of Houston
The Humanists of Houston are American Humanist Association's largest local chapter and they're on pace to become the largest secular movemen...
The Humanist Hour #216: Susan Jacoby on "Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion"
We tend to think of the process of converting from one religion to another as a religious experience, but how much of that reflects the outl...
The Humanist Hour #215: What Humanists Can Bring to Interfaith Dialogue?
"Interfaith" is not a word that comes easily to all humanists. Even more difficult for some is the idea of partnering with religious leaders...
The Humanist Hour #214: Annie Laurie Gaylor on Anne Nicol Gaylor and FFRF
If anyone in today's secular movement should require no introduction, it's Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-founder and now co-president of the Freed...
The Humanist Hour #213: Growing Up Humanist
Today's adolescent humanists in the U.S. aren't the first generation of young people to be raised in a nonreligious philosophy. They are, ho...
The Humanist Hour #212: Lauren Lane on Skepticon and Rethinking Conferences
Skepticon is an unusual conference in several ways. It started as a student-run event that survived its founders' graduation. It's an indepe...
The Humanist Hour #211: Noelle George on Foundation Beyond Belief
We like to say that we’re “good without a god,” but the fact of the matter is that we’re not always very organized about it. One of the good...
The Humanist Hour #210: Miri Mogilevsky on Sex Positivity and Teaching Consent
Sex positivity sounds like a wonderful thing, but do you really know what it is? As a social movement, it's older than you might think. It c...
The Humanist Hour #209: The Intersection of Humanism and Social Justice Work
The concept of social justice is enjoying a renaissance. That doesn't necessarily translate into action, however. Even people who support so...
The Humanist Hour #208: Juhem Navarro-Rivera on Changing Demographics and Changing Politics
There is a significant portion of the U.S. electorate this year who seem determined to "take back their country". It's rare, however, that t...
The Humanist Hour #207: Kelly McCullough on Building Religion through Stories
Kelly McCullough is a fantasy and science fiction author with twelve novels under his belt to date. Despite being raised outside religion, h...
The Humanist Hour #206: Alix Jules on the Politics of Racial Resentment
The 2016 U.S. presidential election has turned into something that wasn't supposed to be able to happen anymore. We’re supposed to be past t...
The Humanist Hour #205: Examining Honor Culture and Violence in Islam
Earlier this month, model and activist Qandeel Baloch was found dead in her home in Pakistan. She'd been drugged and murdered by her brother...
The Humanist Hour #204: Callie Wright on the “Gaytheist Manifesto”
When Callie Wright came out as a trans woman in 2013, there weren't a lot of queer voices in the secular movement that focused on issues aff...
The Humanist Hour #202: Amanda Marcotte on Feminist Topics in Current Politics
Any year in which we have the first female major party presumptive nominee for president is going to be a busy one in feminist politics. Bey...
The Humanist Hour #201: David Niose & Monica Miller on the Appignani Humanist Legal Center
This year, the American Humanist Association's Appignani Humanist Legal Center celebrates a decade of service. The center provides legal ass...
The Humanist Hour #200: Women in Secularism & Secular Woman
In spring of 2012, the secular movement was a different place for women. We were grossly underrepresented on stage, in print, and in the mem...
The Humanist Hour #199: Greta Christina on "The Way of the Heathen"
"So you're an atheist. Now what? The way we deal with life—with love and sex, pleasure and death, reality and making stuff up—can change dra...
The Humanist Hour #198: Humanist Alliance Advisor Interviews, Part 1
Just before the American Humanist Association's 75th Anniversary Conference a couple of weeks ago, the organization announced that it was la...