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- The mind ironic (by Matthew Adams, December 2011)
- Matthew Adams remembers winning a £10 bet, and gaining a lifetime's inspiration from Christopher Hitchens
- Let the kids believe in Santa (by Myra Zepf, December 2011)
- Atheists shouldn’t crush the magic of Christmas, says Myra Zepf
- Epiphany in Etwall (by Dominic Hilton, November 2011)
- Anglicanism had always seemed the quaint traditional option for Dominic Hilton until he was forced to see the church through the eyes of his atheist wife-to-be
- A life in eight ads (by Sam Delaney, October 2011)
- Sam Delaney measures out his days in iconic adverts
- Equal in love? (by Peter Tatchell, September 2011)
- Peter Tatchell says it is time to end the twin bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships
- In Jehovah’s village (by Daniel Sitole, August 2011)
- God is alive and well and living in rural Kenya. Daniel Sitole meets him
- Film review: The Tree of Life (by Fred Rowson, July 2011)
- Terence Malik’s fifth film could do with a dose of Dirty Harry says Fred Rowson
- A friend to the friendless (by David Silver, July 2011)
- In the July/August 2011 issue of New Humanist, Richard Smyth assessed the role of prison chaplains. Here David Silver, who is serving a life sentence in HMP Gartree, offers his view
- Freethinking in the Arab Spring (by Max Opray, July 2011)
- Expressing irreligious views can be dangerous in the Middle East but, for the region's largest group of online rationalists, the Egyptian revolution is a cause for optimism, finds Max Opray
- Africa's imaginary gay crisis (by Ebenezer Obadare, June 2011)
- Across the continent, gays have become the scapegoats for destitution, argues Ebenezer Obadare
- Renovation not demolition (by Austin Mackell, June 2011)
- As Egypt looks ahead to elections, Austin Mackell meets a representative of one of the Islamic parties vying for control
- The sociologist on holiday (by Les Back, June 2011)
- Les Back has some suggestions of which books not to take on vacation
- Open hearted (by Ronald Aronson, June 2011)
- Undergoing life-saving surgery Ronald Aronson realised that there is a force beyond ourselves giving our lives meaning. It just isn’t God
- Saving the Lords Spiritual (by Alice Onwordi, April 2011)
- With defeat likely in next week’s AV referendum, Nick Clegg’s hopes will lie with reforming the House of Lords. But he looks set to compromise and keep the bishops in place, reports Alice Onwordi
- India would have been a better place without Sathya Sai Baba (by Sanal Edamaruku, April 2011)
- Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku on the final debunking of a guru
- Surreal estate (by Ralph Steadman, April 2011)
- Ralph Steadman revisits the city of lost angels
- The man who would be God: an interview with AC Grayling (by Matthew Adams, April 2011)
- Anthony Grayling's latest book is his most daring. He has rewritten the Bible, leaving out God. Matthew Adams meets him
- Whitewash (by Keith Porteous Wood, March 2011)
- We have yet to see justice for the thousands of Irish women forced to work in the inhumane conditions of the Magdalen laundries, says Keith Porteous Wood
- Space for laughs (by Matthew Adams, March 2011)
- As comedian Helen Keen’s Radio 4 series on the history of rocket science begins, she tells Matthew Adams why it’s a subject with room for the serious and the absurd
- “Dear God help me die standing” (by Nasrin Alavi, February 2011)
- As the wave of protest resurfaces in Iran, the desperate regime is setting Ninja thugs on the crowds and murdered activists are being claimed as state martyrs. Nasrin Alavi reports
- It's about Egypt not Islam (by Mona Eltahawy, February 2011)
- Mubarak has gone, now what? Mona Eltahawy has a message for those worrying about an Islamic take-over in Egypt
- Film review: Hereafter (by Fred Rowson, February 2011)
- In taking on the afterlife, Clint Eastwood delivers a trite ghost story that is desperate to be taken seriously, finds Fred Rowson
- Cold reading (by Alan Moore, January 2011)
- Comic book legend Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, kindly allowed us to run this chilling rationalist short story from the latest issue of his excellent new magazine, Dodgem Logic. Lock the windows, draw the curtains and let him spin you a winter's tale...
- Film review: Of Gods and Men (by Fred Rowson, January 2011)
- This depiction of the last days of seven monks murdered by extremists has been widely celebrated, but its questionable take on Christian devotion is ultimately dissatisfying, says Fred Rowson
