Book Excerpt: Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
Excerpted from Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg M. Epstein. Reprinted with permission from The MIT Press. Copyright 2024. One could write... Read More
Book Review: Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation
BOOK BY BRENDA WINEAPPLE RANDOM HOUSE, 2024 “It’s all about the fabulous monkey trial that rocked America!” That was the slogan on the poster of the 1960 film Inherit the Wind, but it describes Keeping... Read More
Movie Review: New Documentary, Bad Faith, Shines a Sobering Light on the Foundations, Dangers of Christian Nationalism
Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy makes no mistake about its intentions, opening with its own definition of Christian nationalism right at the top. “A political movement that believes America was founded as... Read More
We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (And Maybe You Should Too)
BOOK BY KATE COHEN DAVID R. GODINE, PUBLISHER, 2023 While reading Kate Cohen’s We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (And Maybe You Should Too), I found myself nodding. A lot. I also caught... Read More
Don’t Be Mean to 13
BOOK BY DOUGLAS HARRIS LABEL FREE PUBLISHING, 2023 While helping his daughter Elle write Elle the Humanist (a child’s story about being nonreligious and confidently sharing your beliefs and values with friends), Doug Harris read... Read More
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
BOOK BY SARAH BAKEWELL PENGUIN PRESS, 2023 In her latest book, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope—out this year from Penguin Press—Sarah Bakewell jumps right in on the first page... Read More
Adam the Ape Teaches Empathy for All Beings
Adam the Ape by Wolfgang Wambach is an exciting adventure novel with hand-drawn illustrations for readers eight to fourteen years old. It follows a boy named Kenny who is unable to verbally speak, so he... Read More