Book Review: Greta Christina’s Coming Out Atheist
In Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why Greta Christina provides a highly readable, helpful guide to the issues atheists face on whether and how to come out... Read More
5 Famous Atheists in Literature
In a recent Slate article Dan Falk asks, “Was Shakespeare an atheist?” and concludes that he very well may have been. But Shakespeare is hardly alone on a list of literary figures who questioned the... Read More
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
It’s a Wonderful Life is such a cheery movie, we forget that the main character, George Bailey, gets drunk, crashes his car into a tree, and is about to jump off a bridge when his... Read More
Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind
Doubting the divine while still wearing the seal of the cross can be psychological torture, like being held captive in a medieval dungeon of the mind. It is a place of loneliness, despair, and limited... Read More
What We’re Reading: Quick Reviews for TheHumanist.com Readers
Check out what staffers at the American Humanist Association are reading in their free time! Maggie Ardiente, Senior Editor, TheHumanist.com: Most everyone who knows me knows I love eating out and trying new restaurants, so... Read More
Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
Since the mid-1990s, Anthony Pinn has been known to many humanists as a major humanist scholar. He is the author or editor of twenty-eight books, including Why Lord? Suffering and Evil in Black Theology (1995),... Read More
AFTER TWILIGHT: Fighting Theocracy, Comic Book Style
Growing up in Texas I came across more than my fair share of religious fundamentalists, many of whom were my best friends. Most of these people were just overzealous Christians eager to spread what they... Read More
