BOOK BY JOÃO CERQUEIRA LINE BY LION PUBLICATIONS, 2016 324 PP.; $14.89 (PAPERBACK) $2.99 (KINDLE)   JESUS AND MAGDALENE. The title intrigued me enough to give it a go, and I wasn’t disappointed. João Cerqueira’s... Read More

BOOK BY FRANCES FITZGERALD SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017 752 PP.; 35.00 For humanists, dedicated to critical thinking, reason, and firmly opposed to supernatural beliefs, there may be no group in the United States more directly... Read More

Reprinted with permission from Have a Little Faith: Religion, Democracy and the American Public School by Benjamin Justice and Colin Macleod, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2016 by The University of Chicago.... Read More

BOOK BY MARK O'CONNELL DOUBLEDAY, 2017 256 PP.; $26.95 To Be a Machine by versatile literary journalist Mark O’Connell is a travelogue about the author’s experiences among the “transhumanists,” i.e., those who believe that immortality... Read More

BOOK BY MATTHEW PARKER THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS/ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2017 304 PP.; $26.99 Were North America's original thirteen British colonies the first ones relinquished by their mighty mother country? Most Americans probably smugly believe that’s... Read More

BOOK BY RANDALL FULLER VIKING, 2017 302 PP.; $27.00 The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller gives a well-researched and well-written account on the effect Charles Darwin’s views had on the course of American... Read More

Imagine a cackle of hyenas are chasing you towards the edge of a precipice. Do you stay and fight or do you take a leap into the unknown? In the slow motion of everyday life... Read More