New year, same drama
Editorial
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
Take that for Jesus!
Newton Emerson on growing up atheist in Northern Ireland
Reason meets faith
Haydn Mason reads an account of a Baroque clash of hearts and minds
US and Them
Frank Jordans asks American humanists for their reaction to Bush's re-election and their perspective on what the future holds
Universal Idol
How did a stateless German Jewish physicist become the first pop star of science, asks Joseph Schwartz
Anarchist with attitude: Laurie Taylor interviews Linda Smith
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…
Diderot’s triumph
Haydn Mason consults the original humanist bible
Searching for secular Islam
Ziauddin Sardar proposes new ways to separate religion and politics in the Muslim world
Love thine enemy
Not long ago, humanists could feel that theirs was the way of the future. But now, Dave Belden argues, we will need to relearn how to make common cause with…
Points of departure
More and more people are choosing humanist funerals. But what if you're after something a little more exotic? Sally Feldman suggests a new marriage of the secular and the sacred