The story of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal has been in the headlines for almost two decades, but few have taken on the challenge of writing about it in fiction. Gregory Alexander’s novel The... Read More

Last Tuesday’s CNN special was a forty-five minute feature on atheists in America that advertised itself as an exposé of “how the other side lives” (they referred to atheists by “the ‘A’ word”). Yet disappointingly,... Read More

New comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!              

(The plot of this movie is so predictable that I really don’t think it needs a SPOILER ALERT.) This time last year, the Christian production company Pure Flix released the humanist-hating God’s Not Dead, which... Read More

The announcement of a new Netflix series about on a character who lived in an underground bunker as part of an apocalyptic cult for fifteen years caught my interest for obvious reasons. Humanists, who are... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Hermann Samuel Reimarus: The Man Who Exposed the Apostles In 2013 Reza Aslan published a book, Zealot, that contained the startling (to most) claim that... Read More

A coming-of-age story about a sentient robot, South African director Neill Blomkamp’s latest film, Chappie, is a sorely underrated and original film that leaves the audience, or at least me, musing on the endless possible... Read More