Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age
BOOK BY KATHERINE OZMENT HARPER WAVE, 2016 320 PP.; $25.99 With ample statistics, concise historical references, and reliance on social research, Katherine Ozment sets the stage in her recently published book, Grace Without God, for... Read More
The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life
BOOK BY GRETA CHRISTINA PITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2016 223 PP.; $14.95 (KINDLE $7.99) Greta Christina is a widely known atheist who has written extensively for secular publications, blogs, and websites. Her latest book, The Way of... Read More
Book Review: Zero K by Don DeLillo
The unrelenting theme of Don DeLillo’s literary corpus has been life after death—in particular, the theories of life people develop in reaction to the knowledge that they’ll one day die. In White Noise, a husband and wife... Read More
Human, Not Object: Feminist and Humanist Messages in Jessica Valenti’s Sex Object
In the introduction to her latest book, Sex Object, feminist activist and 2014 recipient of the American Humanist Association’s Humanist Heroine award Jessica Valenti acknowledges that the title is controversial. The book is a memoir... Read More
Book Review: The Cartoon History of Humanism, Volume One: Antiquity to Enlightenment by Dale Debakcsy
The conceit from which The Cartoon History of Humanism, Volume One: Antiquity to Enlightenment launches is as funny as it is paradoxical. In fact, its humor comes from its contradictory nature. As a child, our... Read More
Book Review: What the Bible Really Does (and Doesn’t) Say about Sex by Matthew O’Neil
With the religious right constantly harping about the declining sexual morals of our country and our failure to live up to the Biblical standards set by God, one might wonder just what the Bible does... Read More
Book Review: Jesus before the Gospels by Bart Ehrman
Having now written a dozen books, University of North Carolina Religious Studies Professor Bart Ehrman has long been a mainstay in the research and exploration of early Christian history. He has used those tools of... Read More