Reading Time: 5 minutes This week, I opened the column with “Changing tracks: This is Global Humanist Shoptalk.” There, I explored what contemporary humanism includes, and why it matters for the work we’re doing here at OnlySky. Give it a gander, if you haven’t already. If you’d like to be part of these conversations, consider this post an Introductions […]
M L Clark
GLOBAL HUMANIST SHOPTALK
M L Clark is a Canadian writer by birth, now based in Medellín, Colombia, who publishes speculative fiction and humanist essays with a focus on imagining a more just world.
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Changing tracks: This is Global Humanist Shoptalk
Reading Time: 7 minutes Do you remember the film Snowpiercer ? You might recall the director, Bong Joon-ho, from Parasite, which famously depicted a lower-class family’s infiltration of an upper-class household. But class has always been a key consideration in his work, and it shows up in the former, too. Today, as I introduce the idea of Global Humanist […]
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Why OnlySky? Reasons to delight in a secular space
Reading Time: 5 minutes What this secular space might do to improve the state of sociopolitical discourse for us all.
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We have always been here: Secular touchstones
Reading Time: 5 minutes Some secular folks thrill to see the “nones” in North America rising. Maybe you grew up feeling isolated in your atheism. Maybe you’ve been tearing your hair out over policies based on religious edict over empirical data. Or maybe you moved from your family’s faith but never fit in anywhere else. Whatever your backstory, it’s […]
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The freethinking life: Raising critical thinkers, not parrots
Reading Time: 6 minutes I grew up in a freethinking household—at least, where religion was concerned—and that has made all the difference. I know many atheists who grew up in religious homes, whose turn from religion never actually pulled them from religion’s sphere. Many spent the rest of their lives shaping personal identity around the decrial of religious faith. […]