Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind
Doubting the divine while still wearing the seal of the cross can be psychological torture, like being held captive in a medieval dungeon of the mind. It is a place of loneliness, despair, and limited... Read More
Noah: How Could a Movie This Boring Be So Controversial?
I’ve always been a fan of religious mythology and action movies, so when I first heard about Noah, I was ecstatic. Add to this the fact that one of my favorite directors, Darren Aronofsky of... Read More
Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
Since the mid-1990s, Anthony Pinn has been known to many humanists as a major humanist scholar. He is the author or editor of twenty-eight books, including Why Lord? Suffering and Evil in Black Theology (1995),... Read More
Book Review: Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World
In Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create The Modern World, author Mitchell Stephens delivers a readable, vibrant history of disbelief and atheistic thought, arguing persuasively that intellectual challenges to religious belief were a... Read More
The Tomb of Jesus and His Family?
It’s interesting to think that there is no archaeological evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ, or any of his followers. The Talpiot tomb has come close to proving the burial of Jesus and family,... Read More
Christian Nation
In 1935 acerbic Minnesota novelist Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can’t Happen Here, a disturbing book about a fascist takeover in the United States. Fifty years later, Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid’s Tale, another disturbing book,... Read More
Her Written and directed by Spike Jonze
We’ve all wondered at one point or another—in the aggravating moment when our GPS fails, or when our smartphone’s battery dies—are we becoming overly dependent on technology? Writer-director Spike Jonze takes this question a step... Read More