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  • Why I hate the Little Red Hen

    Mean-spirited and whiney, bossy and smug. This fairytale moralist is just too much for Myra Zepf

  • A fundamental problem

    Examinations set at evangelical Christian schools in the UK equate evolution with Nazism and teach children that man co-existed with dinosaurs. Some of these schools receive government funding. Jonny Scaramanga, who was educated within this system, argues it must stop

  • Hostile takeover?

    The government wants the Catholic Church to step in to save England's failing schools. James Gray looks at the latest threat to secular education

  • Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church

    For distant observers, the macabre appeal of the infamous Kansas church tends to lie in the abuse it hurls at those it hates. But the story of how one member walked away reminds us that the victims of fundamentalism are often those on the inside.

  • Creationism and the Curse of Ham: History Texas style

    Who could have predicted it? When the Texas Legislature passed a law in 2007 recommending that schools teach more about the influence of the Bible on history and literature, who could have imagined this would lead to the teaching of young-earth creationism and biblical racism in classrooms? Everyone, that's who.

  • The dark side of Buddhism

    Buddhism is often seen as the acceptable face of religion, lacking a celestial dictator and full of Eastern wisdom. But Dale DeBakcsy, who worked for nine years in a Buddhist school, says it's time to think again

  • Why we need humanist churches

    London’s new “atheist church” is a good start, but if non-belief is going to start building actual communities to rival or replace religion, it’s time to get serious says Alom Shaha

  • Too much, too young

    Hundreds of children every year are being forced to marry against their will. What is being done to stop it? Sarah Ditum reports

  • Saving our universities? New Humanist interviews AC Grayling

    As AC Grayling’s New College of the Humanities enrols its first intake, Caspar Melville asks our most prominent humanist what prompted his most controversial venture

  • Circumcision: time to cut it out?

    The religious culture wars have a new battleground. Is male circumcision a harmless ethnic signifier or the infliction of genuine harm on a child? Toby Lichtig reports