August 9, 2026 - A Humanist Reflection - Fish Stark

Two hundred fifty years ago, Thomas Paine wrote that "we have it in our power to begin the world over again." The scientist Stuart Kauffman gave us a newer name for the same hope: the adjacent possible — the better world that already exists in potential, hovering at the edge of this one, waiting for us to take the single step that makes it real.

Humanists have never believed that a better world descends from on high or arrives all at once. We believe it is built, here, by ordinary people who trust each other and refuse to accept that the way things are is the way they must be. This Sunday we'll explore what it means to live on the edge of the possible in a time of anger and desperation, and how we can find hope even when we don't have faith.

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