Andrew Mueller on a history of swearing
Toby Saul on WG Sebald's posthumous collection
Even if dull, governance is an important part of running a Sunday Assembly, writes Sanderson Jones
Humanism has science, logic and polemics by the hatful. But what it needs is stories & someone to tell them
The strange sub-genre of ex-atheist memoirs, spurious as it is, has an important message for atheism – we need to do a better job of reaching out and holding on to people, says Dale DeBakcsy
Robin Ince's hit rationalist Christmas jamboree returns for a sixth year in 2013 – book your seats today
The intrepid debunking teens – and a dog – make Scooby Doo ideal rationalist TV, says Myra Zepf
Laurie Taylor tries a bit of brain training
How did a mild-mannered British businessman find himself dodging Soviet agents to smuggle the proofs of Andrei Sahkarov's banned memoirs into Moscow in 1989? Bryan Hamlin confesses all
A German secular group is sued for breaking the ban on showing the Life of Brian on Good Friday. Anna Vesterinen reports.