In an exclusive extract from his latest book, a Chaucerian pilgrimage to the remote past, Richard Dawkins roams the lost continent of Gondwana
Comedian Linda Smith, who died in 2006, was the president of the British Humanist Association. In this interview from 2004 she talks to Laurie Taylor about atheism, authority and her passion for pricking pomposity
Is the idea of 'the sacred' available to atheists? Richard Norman navigates the widely differing views at a recent humanist conference
Haydn Mason consults the original humanist bible
Why shouldn't humanists have their own code for conveying solidarity, asks Alan Brownjohn
The founder of the Gallup Organisation once said: "I could prove God statistically." How much should we trust these pollsters, asks Frank Jordans
Jim Herrick reconciles the mystic and the rational
Jonathan Derbyshire on a sophisticated and clear critique of theism
Christopher Duva longs for a godless homeland
Jim Herrick reports from Africa's first humanist conference