The Comics Section: Angry Atheists, Ghost Hunters, Why Abstinence-Only Never Works
The latest from your favorites: Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!
The Comics Section: Interfaith Dialogue, Holy Ghost, Career Ambitions
The latest from your favorites: Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!
Humanist Voices in Verse: Tolerating the Tolerant by Neil Doherty
This week’s poem is by Neil Doherty. Neil is an economist and Professor Emeritus from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has recently moved cross country to Bainbridge Island where he indulges... Read More
Bibles Instead of Candy? Halloween’s Religious History
Many of us know Halloween’s Christian and pagan roots, but did you know some organizations want to reclaim it as a religious holiday sans costumes and—gasp—candy? Matthew Bulger writes on the many religious and secular... Read More
An Atheist’s Halloween: Excerpts from John G. Rodwans Holidays and Other Disasters
On Nov. 15, Humanist Press will release Holidays and Other Disasters, a book that considers the major U.S. holidays from an atheist’s perspective. Author John G. Rodwan, Jr. uses his personal experiences in Detroit during... Read More
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
I sometimes have the impression that philosophers write books mainly for each other. Not so Daniel Dennett, whose latest book is aimed at ordinary civilians like us, and couched in language we can understand without... Read More
The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God
In The Selfish Gene (1976) Richard Dawkins proposed the term “meme” as a unit of cultural transmission analogous to the gene, in that both are transmitters of information. The gene’s information is expressed in its... Read More