BOOK BY JOHN FUGELSANG That a book defending Christianity and the Bible against fundamentalists and religious nationalists could be relevant to humanists might seem contradictory. However, the author’s approach—pairing extremists’ stated beliefs with Christ’s actual... Read More

BOOK BY A. C. GRAYLING ONE WORLD PUBLICATIONS LTD., 2025 It is everywhere: people, places and things are called “woke!” What? According to several news reports in late summer 2025, even the largely rural Southern... Read More

BOOK BY HEATHER FELLIN TIERNY VINE LEAVES PRESS, 2025 236 PP, $17.99 Traveling by train is not about getting somewhere the quickest way possible; it’s about the process of travel, the landscape and life passing... Read More

Book by By D.J. Taylor Pegasus Books (2023) J.D. Taylor does an excellent job laying out the cycle of Orwell’s life in fascinating intimacy in Orwell: The New Life (2023). Orwell’s voice spans two centuries... Read More

BOOK BY PHILIP J SENTER FERAL HOUSE, 2025 The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons is an informative and thought-provoking exploration of the expansive young-Earth creationist bungling attempts to make sense of the fossil record,... Read More

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 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