Film Review: Going Clear, HBO’s Documentary on Scientology
My favorite line from Casablanca is uttered by Captain Renault, exclaiming that he is “shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on in here!” right before a casino employee hands him his winnings. The makers of... Read More
Book Review: Relax, It’s Just God: How and Why to Talk to Your Kids about Religion When You’re Not Religious
Relax, It’s Just God (released today by Brown Paper Press) is a thought-provoking entry in the expanding category of secular parenting advice. It was written by Wendy Thomas Russell, an award-winning journalist who many will... Read More
Book Review: The Holy Mark: The Tragedy of a Fallen Priest
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
Why Humanists Are Still Misunderstood: CNN’s Documentary on Atheists in America
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
The Comics Section: Rational Explanations, Word of God, Coffee Bong
New comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!
We’re the Bad Guys! American Humanist Association Gets Mentioned in New Christian Film Do You Believe?
(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
TV Review: Little Cult Drama in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, but Plenty of Laughs
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
