Something Good to Read: Highly Recommended Humanist Books
As the days roll on amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and we curtail most social interactions, we’re all finding creative outlets to remain physically and mentally healthy and engaged. Some people are picking up projects they... Read More
Book Review: The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation
BY PEGGY WALLACE KENNEDY BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, DECEMBER 2019 304PP., $28.00 George Wallace, four-term governor of Alabama and three-time presidential candidate, relished hypocrisy. He relished it in himself and in his enemies. And nothing made his... Read More
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
BY KATHERINE STEWART BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, 2020 352 PP.; $28.00 The mainstream media depicts the religious right as a monolithic group of evangelicals focused on cultural issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. In this telling, as... Read More
Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt
BY ALEX RYRIE BELKNAP PRESS 272 PP.; $27.95 In his book Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt, author Alec Ryrie, a professor of the history of Christianity at Durham University in England, sets out to... Read More
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
EDITED BY JOHN F. CALLAHAN AND MARC C. CONNER RANDOM HOUSE, 2019 1060 PP.; $50.00 Reviewing a collection of letters by a writer can be a tricky business. The style, themes, and insights that distinguish... Read More
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
BY RICHARD DAWKINS RANDOM HOUSE, 2019 304PP., $27.00 Richard Dawkins was raised Christian, attended Christian schools, and was confirmed in the Church of England when he was thirteen years old. Yet, by the age of... Read More
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
BY ANDREW MARANTZ VIKING, 2019 400PP.; $28.00 What happened when New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz investigated some of the most sinister inhabitants of the internet underworld and, alas, our real world? What didn’t happen... Read More