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Walt Whitman: Transcendentalist, and a poet for our times

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Walt Whitman was an American poet and atheist. He wrote without rhyme or meter, from lived experiences. He hung around with Transcendentalists like Waldo Emerson. He bound up the wounds of Civil War soldiers. He developed a vocabulary to celebrate embodied love, not discussed in the “proper” society of his day. He loved men, with what Oscar Wilde described as […]

Humanism – Meeting Human Needs and Answering Human Problems

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However you keep track of what’s going on in the world today, things have happened in the last week, the last month, in terms of science, economics, art, government, education, and, yes, religion. Each of these events involved human beings who had to make decisions on how to act, based on their deeply-held values. Each will have consequences […]