Editorial: Bibles and bones
New Humanist editor Caspar Melville on an issue full of relics, witches, bibles and doubt
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
Woman of substance
Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. Ann Oakley reviews a truly remarkable career
The benefit of doubt
We shouldn’t be afraid of being uncertain, argues Christopher Lane
India would have been a better place without Sathya Sai Baba
Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku on the final debunking of a guru
My big fat humanist wedding
Jake Wallis Simons offers a few tips to the royal couple
Test-tube truths
Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope
The man who would be God: an interview with AC Grayling
Anthony Grayling's latest book is his most daring. He has rewritten the Bible, leaving out God. Matthew Adams meets him
Quiz: No eggs/pence spared
Break a few eggs and price up an omelette with quizmaster Chris Maslanka
Book review: The Immortalisation Commission by John Gray
Owen Hatherley tires of the same old song
Rhyme & reason
200 years ago Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford for publishing ‘The Necessity of Atheism’. Jonathan Rée reassesses the romantic poet’s rationalism