Volume 126 Issue 3 May/June 2011

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My big fat humanist wedding: Jake Wallis Simons offers a few tips to the royal couple

Long road to renewal: The Islamic world needs to recover its scientific spirit, says Jim Al-Khalili
Today's lesson: Reading the Bible did not awaken Michael Bywater's faith. But it did move him. Don’t tell Dawkins
No ifs, no buts: Qur’an burning is senseless, but we shouldn't be afraid to speak up for free speech, says Padraig Reidy
Changing course: The 'Arab Spring' has changed how we teach Middle East politics forever, says Kerem Oktem

Favourite things: Is it a noble instinct or a destructive desire? Sally Feldman delves into the pathology of collecting
Woman of substance: Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. Ann Oakley reviews a truly remarkable career
Test-tube truths: Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope
The benefit of doubt: We shouldn’t be afraid of being uncertain, argues Christopher Lane
Trace elements: Laurie Taylor interviews Stuart Hall: Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about race, relativism and revolution
Witch-hunt saboteurs: Across Africa, humanists are on the front line in the battle to protect women and children accused of witchcraft. Richard Wilson reports

Editorial: Bibles and bones: New Humanist editor Caspar Melville on an issue full of relics, witches, bibles and doubt
New Humanist Cartoons May June 2011: Cartoons from the May/June issue of New Humanist magazine
Endgame: Blank check up: Laurie Taylor can't keep his mouth shut
Quiz: A lurgical problem: Quizmaster Chris Maslanka challenges you to sidestep death and defeat the dreaded lurgy

Holy bones: The beauty of the reliquaries in the British Museum’s forthcoming Treasures of Heaven exhibition should not blind us to the cruelty of the medieval church, argues Charles Freeman

Book review: The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson: Andrew Mueller admires Jon Ronson's sanity
Book review: Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven: Stephen Howe discovers the best book to be written on modern Pakistan
Book review: The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood: Philip Womack is uninspired by a dystopian debut
Book review: The Address Book by Tim Radford: Angela Saini feels at home with Tim Radford
Book review: Blood Rites by Barbara Ehrenreich: Jenny Bunker finds a re-issued book on the passions of war more pertinent than ever