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Just a couple of years ago, an objective observer might be forgiven for concluding that religious Humanism was dying—or at least that it was in a very bad way.
Ellen Roberts Young is an independent scholar with a PhD in American religious history. She is also a poet whose chapbooks Accidents (2004) andThe Map of Longing (2009) were published by Finishing Line Press. This article is drawn from her biography, John Emerson Roberts: Kansas City’s “Up-to-date” Freethought Preacher (Xlibris, 2011).