Volume 16 - 1996
Fall, 1996 - Volume 16, Number 4
Defining Humanism: The Battle Continues
- Introduction: Beyond Religion — Paul Kurtz
- The Religion Of Secular Humanism — David A. Noebel
- New Court Decision Brings Death To A Myth — Molleen Matsumura
- Humanism Is Not A Religion — Skipp Porteous
- What Is Religious Humanism? — Mason Olds
- Why Is Religious Humanism? — Thomas W. Flynn
- Humanism As A 'Quasi-Religion' — John E. Smith
- Deliver Us From Religion — Timothy J. Madigan
- An Anthropological Interpretation Of Religion — Raymond Firth
- The Making of Humanist Manifesto I — Herbert A. Tonne
- The Lingering Humanist Manifesto I — Lester Mondale
The Rise Of Christian Nationalism In The U.S.: What Do We Do Now? — Frederick
Clarkson
Humanist Seeing Things as They Are: The Enlightened Cynicism of Ambrose Bierce
— Glenn
Odden
Humanist Campus Freethought Organization Formed
Humanist Poem: 'Prometheus' — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Incredible Flimflams Of Margaret Rowen, Part 2: The Sad Saga Of Dr. Bert Fullmer
— Martin Gardner
The Ultimate Gift — Mary Frantz
Gordon Stein - In Memoriam — Joe Nickell & Paul
Kurtz
India
Reviews
- Angels? Not a Prayer! — Joe Nickell
- Sagan On Science — Kenneth Marsalek
- A Scientific Critique Of The Paranormal — Wolf Roder
- Utopian Eugenics — Timothy J. Madigan
- Hypatia As A Freethought Heroine — Gordon Stein
Summer, 1996 - Volume 16, Number 3
The Unlimited Cosmos - A Personal Odyssey — Alan Hale
New Age Physics: Has Science Found the Path to the Ultimate? — Victor J. Stenger
"We Need a Miracle!" — Art Buchwald
Paul Cadmus: Artist-Humanist — Warren Allen Smith
In Honor of Bonnie Bullough — Gerald A. Larue
Bonnie Bullough 1927-1996 — Paul Kurtz
The Abortion Debate — Vern L. Bullough
The Moral Case for Abortion — Henry Morgentaler
Secret Files Menace Doctors — Skipp Porteous
Abortion Is the Issue from Hell — Tom Foster Digby
What Do These Fetuses Want? — Nat Hentoff
The Abortion Issue and Selecting a Criterion of "Life" — Noel W. Smith
In Support of the Right to Choose — Joan Kennedy Taylor
Defend Abortion, Not Just Choice — Thomas W. Flynn
Religious Belief In America: A New Poll
- It Is Hard to Believe — Herbert Tonne
- Religious Beliefs of Scientists: A Survey of the Research — Gerald R. Bergman
- Religion and Crime: Do They Go Together? — Lisa Conyers & Philip D. Harvey
Post-Marxism And Humanism
- The Survival of Humankind Is the Basic Humanist Value: An Interview with Svetozar
Stojanovic — Paul Kurtz
- The Hard Course of Humanism in China — Lei Yong-Sheng
Reviews
- God: A Life — Robert Gorham Davis
Spring, 1996 - Volume 16, Number 2
Do We Need God To Be Moral?
- Without a Supreme Being, Everything Is Permitted — John M. Frame
- Rebuttal — Paul Kurtz
- The Common Moral Decencies Don't Depend on Faith — Paul Kurtz
- Rebuttal — John M. Frame
Religion In The Public Schools
- Introduction — Andrea Szalanski
- Church and State: A Humanist View —
Vern L.
Bullough
- The Case for Affirmative Secularism — Thomas W. Flynn
- Religious and Philosophical Freedom for Everybody: A Reply to Tom Flynn —
Rob Boston
- Church-State Separation: The 1996 Elections and Beyond — Edward Tabash
- Thinking "About" Religion: The Need for Freethought in the Curriculum
— John
B. Massen
- The Libertarian Curriculum for Public Education — Joe Barnhart
- The Privatization of Education: Can Public Education Survive? — Michael J. Rockler
Viewpoints
- Irish Democracy Continues Its Advance — Dick Spicer
- Notes From The Editor — Paul Kurtz
- Missionaries Invade Public Schools — Skipp Porteous
The Incredible Flimflams Of Margaret Rowen, Part 1: Seventh-Day Adventist And The
Second Coming — Martin Gardner
Strange Bedfellows: Mormon Polygamy And Baptist History — George D. Smith
The Lost Encyclical Against Penicillin — Christopher Durang
Beat the Odds — Dan Olincy
Paul Edwards On Nietzsche, Freud, And Reich — Warren Allen Smith
Humanism And Human Malleability — Timothy J. Madigan
Reviews
- Shepherds Are For Sheep — Nada Mangialetti
- Poking Fun At New Testament Absurdities — Farrell Till
- Sex and Sensibility — Wendy McElroy
- Snake Handling — Joe Nickell
- Physics and Consciousness — H. James Birx
- What a Tangled Web We Weave — John Schumaker
Winter, 1995/96 - Volume 16, Number 1
In Defense of Freedom of Conscience: A Cooperative Baptist/Secular Humanist Declaration
New Fundamentalist Intolerance and the Southern Baptist Convention
— George
H. Shriver
Humanism And Tolerance
- Introduction — Timothy J. Madigan
- The United Nations' Year for Tolerance: An Interview with Robert Muller
- Humanism and Tolerance — Jean-Claude Pecker
- The Limits of Tolerance — Paul Kurtz
- Thought, Conscience, Religion, or Belief — Michael Roan
- Representing Freethought in London — Margaret Downey
- Freedom Of and From Religion — Matt Cherry
- Dealing with Religious Beliefs: Some Suggestions from Anthropology — Phillips
Stevens, Jr.
The Challenge From The Religious Right
- Farrakhan and the Million Man March — Norm Allen, Jr.
- Mania in the Stadia: The Origins and Goals of the Promise Keepers — Russ Bellant
- The Threat to the Atheists' Good Life — Albert E. Lyngzeidetson
- The Religious Right's Voice of Intolerance — Skipp Porteous
- Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995): Another Victim of Zealotry — James A. Haught
American Naturalism
- The American Naturalist Tradition — Peter H. Hare
- Remembering John Dewey and Sidney Hook — Richard Rorty
- The Significance of American Philosophical Naturalism — Patrick Romanell
- Secularization in Turkey — Ioanna Kuguradi
Marking Life's Milestones: New Directions For CODESH
- Humanist Celebrations — Jane Wynne Willson
- Center for Inquiry Hosts First Welcoming Ceremony — Matt Cherry
News And Views
- Humanist Potpourri — Warren Allen Smith
Viewpoints
- The NGO Conference on Women in Beijing — Barbara Stocker
- Philosophy and Feminist Politics — Ellen Klein and Barry Smith
