Book Review: Being Called: Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives

Being Called is an academic collection of essays that attempts to define and explain the experience of a “calling” from scientific, secular, and sacred perspectives in order to bridge the so-called big questions found in... Read More
Creating Change through Humanism

Humanist leaders look for media opportunities to explain our positions to the general public, and are usually countered by decidedly non-humanist opponents. In his new book, Creating Change through Humanism, American Humanist Association Executive Director... Read More
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt

As the U.S. political scene has evolved, more and more Americans have begun to realize that the nation suffers from deep, systemic problems. The sad truth is that American democracy is dysfunctional, with government (and... Read More
Go Set a Watchman

It’s simply impossible to read the recently published Go Set a Watchman without comparing it to Harper Lee’s only other published book, To Kill a Mockingbird. I wanted to give Lee the chance to write... Read More
Book Review: The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

As a follow up to 2012’s bestselling Proof of Heaven, Dr. Eben Alexander—the neurosurgeon who claims to have visited heaven while comatose—treats us to another dubious tour of the beyond in The Map of Heaven:... Read More
The Meaning of Human Existence

There are few scientists alive today who have had as far-reaching an impact as Edward O. Wilson. With a career spanning more than half a century, he is the author of thirty books in which... Read More
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

In 1952, with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president, a small, chariot-driving clan of Christian evangelicals stormed the national stage, bent on foisting their religious claims into American law, custom, and ceremony. The... Read More