The Prophet: a satire
Humanism has science, logic and polemics by the hatful. But what it needs is stories & someone to tell them
Humanism has science, logic and polemics by the hatful. But what it needs is stories & someone to tell them
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…
Robin Ince's hit rationalist Christmas jamboree returns for a sixth year in 2013 – book your seats today
The intrepid debunking teens – and a dog – make Scooby Doo ideal rationalist TV, says Myra Zepf
Laurie Taylor tries a bit of brain training
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
A German secular group is sued for breaking the ban on showing the Life of Brian on Good Friday. Anna Vesterinen reports.
Not mockery but twisted devotion. Aaron Rosen enjoys Michael Landy's crack-pot saints at the National Gallery
The people of Jharia struggle to live on top of a toxic open cast mine that is permanently ablaze. Words & Images Isabell Zipfel
Inhumane doctors in a conformist system. Theodore Dalrymple reviews a satire of the NHS.