I recently published several essays in Free Inquiry magazine exploring the intersection of humanism, science, and meaning.  The essays examine ways that humanism and science can inform and inspire a sense of human meaning.  They propose a positive and passionate understanding of human meaning in the context of naturalism and reason.  The articles are “Evolutionary Humanism for a New Era” (June/July 2008), “Humanism, Meaning, and Wonder” (Oct/Nov 2008), and “Sublime Naturalism” (Aug/Sept 2009).  This forum represents an opportunity to develop these ideas further.  I welcome discussion and feedback.

Lawrence Rifkin

I wish you could post the “meaning of humanism” essays.
I don’t always have access to back issues of magazines.

Or maybe you could post the URL links to the articles if they are on line.

Gary

That would be nice, but not all the articles in Free Inquiry are online, which is bad if you don’t get Free Inquiry.  I get it, but that isn’t much help for those who don’t.  Unfortunately, I don’t remember reading those articles. I’ll have to back in my collection and pull out those issues to read them (again).  They sound like great articles and I can’t imagine not reading them.