Book Review: Relax, It’s Just God: How and Why to Talk to Your Kids about Religion When You’re Not Religious
Relax, It’s Just God (released today by Brown Paper Press) is a thought-provoking entry in the expanding category of secular parenting advice. It was written by Wendy Thomas Russell, an award-winning journalist who many will... Read More
Book Review: The Holy Mark: The Tragedy of a Fallen Priest
The story of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal has been in the headlines for almost two decades, but few have taken on the challenge of writing about it in fiction. Gregory Alexander’s novel The... Read More
Book Review: Tales from Gombe
Tales from Gombe is an intimately illustrated coffee table book created by wildlife photographers Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers. It details the simian soap operas and political scandals occurring amongst a community of wild chimpanzees... Read More
What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
It was the twentieth-century Italian social theorist Antonio Gramsci who gave us the concept of a hegemonic ideology—an ideology that has so successfully beaten out its competitors that it no longer appears to be an... Read More
Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
Richard Whittle’s Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution is the chronicle of an ingenious, proficient piece of technology that many people deplore or even detest. Designated by the U.S. Air Force as a... Read More
The Children Act
Humanists sit up and take notice—The Children Act is a cautionary tale for those of us who would encourage people doubting their faith to explore those doubts. The book begins benignly enough, with the protagonist,... Read More
Tending the Epicurean Garden
Ours is the age of science. We live in a time in which technology has performed such wondrous feats that many have come to believe, if only half consciously, that technology itself will exempt us... Read More