Author: James Croft
James Croft is the Research and Education Fellow at the Humanist Community at Harvard and has worked on the Humanist Community Project since its inception. He is a Cambridge and Harvard graduate and is currently studying for his doctorate in the philosophy of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was raised on Shakespeare, Sagan, and Star Trek and is a proud, gay humanist.
The Godless Congregation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Moving beyond discussions of the existence of God and the evils of religion, groups of nonbelievers are meeting to ask the big questions that animate human life: Who are we? Why are we here? How should we live?
This article is available for free to all.Sparking a Fire in the Humanist Heart
In 1877 at the age of twenty-six, Felix Adler founded the Ethical Culture Society, a humanistic congregational social movement dedicated to ethical practice. His founding address spoke of the need for communities dedicated to moral action and ethical improvement—congregations that, without reference to God, would work together to solve the social ills of the late …