The Humanist's Devotional

Jessica Hagy is always looking for connections and themes—tendrils of information that loop and twist and knot into each other. In The Humanist’s Devotional she connects quotations and aphorisms to build a conversation between voices from ancient to modern times, a conversation that asserts a humanism that’s bravely authentic, with a message that our world is absolutely and wonderfully fascinating. The result is a book of daily devotionals, or meditations, that are not centered on a god or religion, but on a mindset: humanism as a function of learned history and a coping mechanism for a hectic and unnerving world.