Aftershock: 9/11 ten years on
A decade after the destruction of the Twin Towers, the greatest change to the world has been the reinvention of Islam, says Stephen Howe
Faith & Religion
Briefing: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
Adam Rutherford remembers getting atheists reciting the Lord's Prayer at last year's rationalist jamboree
Book review: Ragnarok – The End of the Gods
Philip Womack is chilled by AS Byatt's magnificent retelling of the Norse myth
In Jehovah’s village
God is alive and well and living in rural Kenya. Daniel Sitole meets him
Book review: A God of One’s Own by Ulrich Beck
Keith Kahn-Harris discovers religion in modernity
A Fatah-Hamas truce is good for Palestinians
The Arab Spring is aiding political reconciliation in Gaza, explains Sami Zubaida
Book review: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns
Richard Wilson is impressed by a new book on the collapse of the Congo
A friend to the friendless
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…
Captive audience
Sympathetic ear or religious recruiter - what’s a prison chaplain for? Richard Smyth finds out
Freethinking in the Arab Spring
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