The son of an evangelical minister and a schoolteacher/librarian, Jay Rogers was on track to follow his father to the pulpit. Then he read the Bible … really read it. His study led him to atheism, then humanism. Jay is an Albuquerque resident, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army, father, husband and friend to anyone who wants to be. Jay will explain his understanding of humanism and why it has become his guiding life philosophy.

“We talk a lot about what humanism is,” Jay says. “But too often it gets defined through the scope of atheism, or as a counterweight to religion. We rarely discuss the broader effects of humanism in practice, or the motivation to practice it as a philosophy.”