Damned Good Company: Twenty Rebels Who Bucked the God Experts
I came to the humanist movement in the 1970s, not as a refugee or rebel against the abusive teachings of organized religion but as one already born into an atheistic humanist family who was longing... Read More
Leaving Jesus: Women of Color Beyond Faith
This article is an excerpt from Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (forthcoming February 2013). This article first appeared in The Feminist Wire. The 24-hour prayer sessions are the true test of a warrior for... Read More
Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
There’s a tendency among humanist and atheist writers to make their books dense and detailed, recognizing that the usual audience wants all the facts comprehensively collected in one place. Their readers may not need or... Read More
Book Review: Nonbeliever Nation by David Niose
In his new book, Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans David Niose, president of the American Humanist Association, outlines the history of secular thought in America, the relatively recent rise of the Religious Right,... Read More
What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets
Warren Chisum is a conservative state legislator in Texas. He has long campaigned for the re-criminalization of homosexual acts, and for the elimination of programs designed to help people with AIDS. In 1994 he boasted... Read More
The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers—How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
Did you know that in the Roman Catholic Church, there is an official called a camerlengo whose sole duty since the Middle Ages has been to ascertain that a pope is truly dead? One of... Read More
The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson's latest book is structured around three questions: Where did we come from, what are we, and where are we going? Philosophers and theologians have been chewing on these questions for millennia, but... Read More