Culture Shocks » Religion

Katherine Stewart

robinson — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:49:01 +0000

The Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children, but she soon discovered that the Club’s real mission is to convert children to fundamentalist Christianity.

Guy P. Harrison

robinson — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:24:47 +0000

How do you find a gently persuasive way of steering people away from unfounded beliefs, bogus cures, and the like? Skeptic Guy P. Harrison shows you how in 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True.

John M. Barry, Rob Boston

robinson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:21:07 +0000

John M. Barry takes a revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America in Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul. Later, Rob Boston with Americans United talks about the Supreme Court decision saying that churches and other religious groups must be free to choose their leaders without government interference.

Robert McCauley

robinson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:03:31 +0000

In Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, Robert N. McCauley, argues that our minds are better suited to religious belief than to scientific inquiry.

Craig Parshall

robinson — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:07:42 +0000

Barry Lynn and Craig Parshall with the National Religious Broadcasters butt heads on the issues of the day.

Arthur Magida, Rob Boston

robinson — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:18:38 +0000

Rumors circulated that a popular Jewish mind reader was advising Hitler as his personal psychic. For all his supposed clairvoyance, he failed to see what awaited the Jews, including himself, in Arthur Magida’s The Nazi Seance. Then, the separation of powers with Rob Boston, senior policy analyst at Americans United.

Eric Weiner

robinson — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:46:18 +0000

When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner, an agnostic, finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, “Have you found your God yet?” Follow his journey in Man Seeks God.

Phil Zuckerman

robinson — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:46 +0000

In Faith No More, Phil Zuckerman draws on in-depth interviews with people who have left religion to find out what’s really behind the process of losing one’s faith

Marcia Pally

robinson — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:45:10 +0000

Marcia Pally rebuts a bleak and superficial view by offering the first in-depth look at ” The New Evangelicals“–those who have moved away from the Religious Right toward a broadened focus on economic justice, environmental care, and democracy.

R.A. Brown, Kathryn Petras

robinson — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:00:20 +0000

R.A. Brown’s new gripping legal thriller, Created Equal, then Kathryn Petras with The Stupidest Things Ever Said.