Humanism

Most of the ethical debates I grew up hearing were colossal: war, climate disaster, reproductive rights, guns. They felt too vast to touch, as if morality only lived in rooms with microphones. But lately I’ve started paying attention to something quieter — the ethics of the everyday, the moral weight of small choices in ordinary […]

In the past fifteen years since my deconversion, I’ve had many conversations with many followers across a spectrum of denominations. Despite these conversations rarely turning overtly hostile, there were always implicit assumptions about my motivations for leaving faith. Over the years, I’ve noticed a shift in the “debate”-style conversations where my interlocutor will attempt to […]

"Success does not end wanting, and therefore cannot be trusted to regulate itself."