The Autumn 2025 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! This issue is all about how the battle over space – playing out unseen ...

They fuck you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to, but they do / They fill you with the faults they had / And add ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. My personal philosophical trajectory can be summarised as follows: (mildly) Catholic by birth; atheist at 15; humanist until 50; ...

Most scientific breakthroughs take years of research – but often, serendipity provides the final push, as these historic discoveries show .

The popular association of atheism with immorality is a particular deterrent for women who have religious doubts, since in Arab society they are expected to be “virtuous” in order to marry. “It is ...

The view that more information produces better decisions is at odds with the world around us.

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...

The great Buddha statue in Nha Trang, Vietnam by Petr Ruzicka On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out ...

“The Crucifixion” (c. 1340) by Paolo Veneziano. Credit: Alamy Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God (Picador) by Catherine Nixey Many of us suffer from the cognitive bias known as the “just ...

In rallying in opposition to marriage reform, religious campaigners claim that their arguments are grounded in reason and common sense. But take a closer look and you'll spot the homophobia, says ...

But Trump likes people who like him, and these people liked him. By the fall of 2015, White-Cain was arranging meetings between the would-be president and charismatic religious leaders. These were ...