The Prophet: a satire
Humanism has science, logic and polemics by the hatful. But what it needs is stories & someone to tell them
Culture
The Turncoats
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…
Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People 2013: Tickets on sale now
Robin Ince's hit rationalist Christmas jamboree returns for a sixth year in 2013 – book your seats today
In praise of meddling kids
The intrepid debunking teens – and a dog – make Scooby Doo ideal rationalist TV, says Myra Zepf
He’s sorry he hasn’t a clue
Laurie Taylor tries a bit of brain training
The Soviet Union, my part in its downfall
How did a mild-mannered British businessman find himself dodging Soviet agents to smuggle dissident Andrei Sahkarov's banned memoirs into Moscow in 1989? Bryan Hamlin confesses all
No bright side of life on Good Friday
A German secular group is sued for breaking the ban on showing the Life of Brian on Good Friday. Anna Vesterinen reports.
Art review: Saints alive
Not mockery but twisted devotion. Aaron Rosen enjoys Michael Landy's crack-pot saints at the National Gallery
Life on fire: images from the Jharia coalfields
The people of Jharia struggle to live on top of a toxic open cast mine that is permanently ablaze. Words & Images Isabell Zipfel
Book review: Goldblatt’s Descent by Michael Honig
Inhumane doctors in a conformist system. Theodore Dalrymple reviews a satire of the NHS.