Its difficult not to see the New College of the Humanities as misguided and anti-humanist, says Sally Feldman
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
Sympathetic ear or religious recruiter - what’s a prison chaplain for? Richard Smyth finds out
For critic James Wood the novel offers an antidote to unforgiving certainties, sacred and profane. Matthew Adams meets him
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
Between the arrogant believers and the smug atheists stands a lone comic, with only a successful career for comfort.
Since there is nothing useful about the God hypothesis, we can happily discard it. Physicist Mano Singham makes the scientific case for atheism
Undergoing life-saving surgery Ronald Aronson realised that there is a force beyond ourselves giving our lives meaning. It just isn’t God
Bibles, doubt and morality without God
Quizmaster Chris Maslanka challenges you to sidestep death and defeat the dreaded lurgy