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Rowan Williams (left) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002–2012. Andrew Copson (right) is a humanist leader and author. He is chief executive of ...

Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s prescient genius produced a series of classic stories, collected together as I, Robot, in which intelligent machines are confronted with existential issues. However, even ...

I’m sitting with Bruce Parry outside his new home in the Cambrian Mountains of Wales. Parry is an explorer in every sense of the word. Famous for his travels to far-flung places, it’s his latest, more ...

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. His most recent television series ...

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This article is a preview from the Summer 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Few atheists know the Bible as intimately as Dan Barker. Few, after all, can profess ...

On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out amongst the world religions as uniquely not awful. Even ...

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 ...