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Tag Archives: grief
The End is Near
The following narrative is closely based on a deeply moving conversation I had with “Knut,” an elementary schoolmate whom I’d never forgotten, and with whom I managed to get back in touch just as he was facing his mortality. In this novel excerpt, the grieving narrator, an atheist, is trying to decide her own future.
Knut lives in a fatigued yellow wood-frame bungalow with windows … Read more
Those Famous 5 Stages of Grief: Hogwash?
Loss —if we’ve been paying attention and are older than 12—is a recurrent theme in all our lives. You don’t have to identify as a Bright to have dealt with grief or to realize you will face grieving someday.
I’d often read about the so-called five stages of grief, first espoused by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross more than 40 years ago. But when I recently read a … Read more
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Tagged acceptance, atheism, Brights, grief, loss, resilience, stages
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13 Neat Things You May Not Know About Humanism
I’m going to share some humanist thoughts and resources I picked up at the 2013 American Humanist Association Conference that may be as new to you as they were to me.
First, though, in brief, what’s humanism? I don’t think I can summarize it better than this statement on the site of the AHA, which you’ll notice shares much in common with The Brights:
… Read moreHumanism
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Tagged AHA, atheism, conference, Dan Savage, ethical, feminism, freethought, grief, humanism, Humanist Press, katha pollitt, lawyers, LGBTQ, Luis Granados, physicist, religion, Richard Dawkins, Sean M. Carroll, secularism, susan k. perry, writing
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