New comics by Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils!              

How bad is the scripture-based humor in The Shack, a film that hit theaters Friday and is being promoted as an uplifting spiritual journey? When Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) first meets the Father, the Son and... Read More

New comics by Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils!              

Both left- and right-wing intellectuals agree that metaphysical convictions (our ideas about the fundamentals of reality) have social and political implications. The former's reasons for believing this tend to be unintelligible (or at least incommunicable), whereas... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Barbara Ehrenreich and Liberalism's Cyclical Self Sabotage Two years ago it might have seemed that Barbara Ehrenreich’s writings could be safely consigned to the archives... Read More

Constantine’s victory in the Battle at the Milvian Bridge (shown here in part of an unfinished painting by Le Brun) gave him total control of the Western Roman Empire and paved the way for Christianity... Read More

BOOK BY LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016 360 PP.; $35.00 WHAT INITIALLY DREW ME to read Village Atheists was curiosity about life and challenges for secularists living in the United States more than... Read More