Web Columns and Feedback

The Council for Secular Humanism sponsors this section of our web site to encourage provocative, thoughtful writing and to give you, our readers, more things to read that we trust you will find interesting. This is in addition to, not in lieu of, the featured selected articles from Free Inquiry, and essays from our founder, Paul Kurtz. We will be carrying, regularly, a column called Rationally Speaking by one of our favorite scientists/writers/thinkers, Massimo Pigliucci of Tennessee.  This new section will also include at least two other additions: there will be a regular column from me called "Footnotes to History and Other Reflections" that will provide the factual details and introductory arguments needed to counter the propaganda that the Christian-nation mythologists engage in or the pernicious notions often encountered about things like whether secular humanists are moral—or even whether we can be.  There will be two of these columns posted at the beginning of each month, starting in June 2002, so that any newsletter editor who wants to reprint one in a monthly publication will have a choice—and can expect new choices each month. (These will be available on request to our independent secular humanist, freethought, or atheist local organization allies, for use in local newsletters.)  All columns, once posted, will be available in our on-line archives for reference. We will also have a section of selected feedback from those who visit our pages. The editor of that section will be Norm R. Allen, Jr. (executive director of African Americans for Humanism and deputy editor of Free Inquiry). Allen will strive to provide a selection that is balanced and thought-provoking. If you have comments, positive or negative, from a secular humanist perspective or from some other point of view, please go to the feedback part of this site, http://www.secularhumanism.org/feedback.htm, and let us hear from you.  If you have ideas about things that should be added to this new section, please let us know about that as well. Thanks for visiting our site. 

Ed Buckner, Southern Director