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

BOOK EDITED BY KAREN L GARST PRITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2016 272 PP.; $16.95 IN 2014 THE ARTS and crafts chain Hobby Lobby fought to exclude certain types of birth control coverage for its female employees based... Read More

BOOKS EDITED BY ART A. AYRIS KINGSTONE COMICS, 2016 2,053 PP. IN THREE VOLUMES, $74.99 ONE OF MY CHILDHOOD memories of United Presbyterian Sunday school is the fun I had reading full-color comics telling Bible... Read More

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

This week's poem is by Brian C. Felder, a widely published poet currently writing from his home in rural Delaware. If you’d like to contribute original poetry to Humanist Voices in Verse, write to write@thehumanist.com... Read More

James Baldwin was a national treasure. Through his masterful writing and oratorical deliberations on race and Black America’s constant struggle for justice and recognition of our humanity, Baldwin’s poetic potency proves timeless as it continues... Read More