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  • Do you want to see The Unbelievers?

    A new documentary follows godless superstars Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss on their world tour to vanquish irrationalism, with cameos from Woody Allen, Cameron Diaz, Ricky Gervais and a host of other fans. Excited? Appalled? Couldn't care less? Let us know

  • South London spiritual

    Though he is an atheist, Matthew Adams finds peace and solace in the Victorian churches of the South London suburb of Brockley. Photographs by Melissa Harrison

  • Sunday Assembly kicked out of deconsecrated church venue

    Rumblings on a Steiner School board have left the atheist church homeless – prompting the home of humanism to ride to the rescue

  • Thrashing for Jesus, Rapping For Science

    The god debate has infiltrated popular music. Dale DeBakcsy looks at how heavenly metal squares up to rationalist rap

  • Yes, Ann, I am having a laugh

    In a recent television programme Ann Widdecombe denounced much contemporary comedy as anti-Christian and offensive. Balderdash, says Terri Murray, no ideas should be protected from satire

  • Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass

    Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York November 7, 2008

  • Six graphic novels every humanist should read

    While TV and film have been busy side-stepping atheism and soft-soaping religion, comic books and graphic novels have provide a rich seem of godlessness in tights. Dale DeBackcsy picks out six of the best

  • The cartoon war on sceptics

    From My Little Pony to Spider-Man children's cartoons are sending the message that belief trumps science. Dale DeBakcsy tunes in to the animated assault on reason

  • Flaming swords & gossamer wings

    Though belief in religion is on the wane, angels have never been more popular. Why’s that? asks Sally Feldman

  • Book review: Two novels by Donald Antrim

    Feted by Franzen and eulogised by Eugenides (though he isn't dead), Donald Antrim may be the best American novelist you've never heard of. Philip Womack reviews two of his novels just published by Granta