Film Review: The Atheist Delusion
Christian evangelist Ray Comfort asks the big questions. Well, one question (and it kind of has to do with the small): Is DNA intelligently designed? In the words of PZ Myers, the answer is, “No.”... Read More
A Thanksgiving Prayer
We are grateful to be In a universe in which stars Are born and over time will die Giving forth the elements of everything. We are grateful to be On a planet orbiting a star... Read More
The Gene: An Intimate History
BOOK BY SIDDARTHA MUKHERJEE SCRIBNER, 2016 608PP.; $38.00 At first glance, The Gene: An Intimate History may not be the best book for light reading. In nearly 500 pages, with an additional hundred pages of... Read More
Book Review: The Making of Working-Class Religion by Matthew Pehl How Do We Cultivate Working Class Humanism?
When 5 percent of the US population owns 63 percent of the country’s wealth and the bottom 40 percent of the population has none, and as the US middle class continues to shrink, the humanist... Read More
The Comics Section: No Jesus, No Peace, and Islamic Human Rights
Your favorites from The Atheist Pig, and Jesus and Mo!
Book Review: Faithonomics An Economic Case for Jefferson’s Wall
Torkel Brekke’s Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market is a solid attempt to frame the role religion plays in societies around the world through the language of economics. The attempt itself is laudable, if only... Read More
Book Review: Grandmother Fish: A Child’s First Book of Evolution
BOOK BY JONATHAN TWEET; ILLUSTRATED BY KAREN LEWIS FEIWEL & FRIENDS, 2016 40PP.; $17.99 Simply written and delightfully illustrated, Grandmother Fish: A Child’s First Book of Evolution would be a great gift for the preschooler... Read More