Beginnings: Humanists of Utah Organized The organizational meeting of Humanists of Utah was held in November 1990. Eight people attended the meeting. One of those was 94-year-old Edwin H. Wilson, an original founder of the American Humanist...

Beginnings... I really wanted to get this to you by last week, but my computer went on the blink. Only now that I have it back, I realize that I could have just sat down, and written all this in longhand. Now why didn't I think of that earlier?...

Economies of Scale I haven't seen that many of them lately: those bumper stickers that proudly proclaim, "I don't believe the liberal media." That sounds blundered, but there is a point here. Who are you going to believe? You can't, as the...

Organizational Economics Thursday, May 9th, 1991 is an important day for Humanists of Utah. It is our chapter's official zeroth birthday, the day the chapter charter will be approved by the national board of the American Humanist Association....

Prayer In School Nancy's Corner Nancy Moore is one of the plaintiffs in the ACLU's court case to end prayer at high school graduation ceremonies. In this article, she outlines her reasons why. The right to freedom of speech is a treasured...

Hospice The Hospice movement is active all over Utah, but there still are medical professionals who will not inform patients or care-givers about the availability of help for the terminally ill. Flo Wineriter told the May meeting of Humanists...

Another growth phase! Humanists of Utah is going through another growth phase. For one thing, the newsletter has a new format. The old magazine-style legal pages had their charm, but this letter size is easier and cheaper to print. Besides,...

Humanism in Utah: A Cost Benefit Analysis Humanists of Utah has been organizing since February of this year. Over the last six months we've gathered the nuts and bolts that make an organization, things like a charger, a mailbox, a newsletter...

The "Other" Half of the Human Race? Editor, I have listed to Mack Gift's tapes, read your two newsletters and was about to dash a check off to become a member. Then, I reread "The Thesis of Humanist Manifesto I." The language used is exclusionary....

Humanists and Death I have pondered how a humanist deals with the death of a loved one since my wife died eight years ago. I was born, raised, and married in the Mormon faith and lived according to its teachings until I was about 25 years old....

The Bill of Rights This year marks the two hundredth anniversary of the Bill of Rights. It is one of the most important documents in human history, and yet few Americans know what it is, where it is located, or why it was necessary. In fact,...