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December 2012 / January 2013

Volume 33, Number 1

Selected articles available online.
Why aren’t all the articles available online?


WOMEN IN SECULARISM

Melody Hensley, Guest Editor

Women in Secularism: Introduction
Melody Hensley

Nontheism and Feminism: Why the Disconnect?
Ophelia Benson

Sexism: It's Not Mission Drift!
Jennifer McCreight

The Intersection of Nontheism and Feminism
Rebecca Watson

How to Attract More Secular Women Activists
Susan Jacoby

Jezebel
Sikivu Hutchinson

Islam Is Woman’s Enemy
Wafa Sultan

Poems: "Please Answer All Three of the Following Essay Questions," "Love Explained," "Villanelle If You Want to Be a Badass," and "History"
Jennifer Michael Hecht



Spending Christmas with Linus
Jim Metzger

Before the Beginning
Dennis E. Erickson

Cut It Out: Circumcision Revisited
Edan Tasca


EDITORIAL

Free Expression and Women’s Rights
Ronald A. Lindsay


FREE EXPRESSION IN CRISIS

It’s Time to Stand Up for Free Expression
Tom Flynn

The First Amendment Provides Full Protection to Innocence of Muslims
Edward Tabash

The Trouble with ‘Religious Hatred’
Austin Dacey

Freedom of Speech and Muslim Rage
Shadia B. Drury

Skepticism vs. the Indian ‘Blasphemy Law’: Free Speech, Free Inquiry, and Religious Tolerance
Ryan Shaffer


IN MEMORIAM

Paul Kurtz (1925–2012)


LETTERS


OP-EDS

Altruism Isn’t Generosity
Tibor R. Machan

Homosexuality Is Not a Choice, But It Should Be
Katrina Voss

Fifty Years of American Atheists
Tom Flynn

More Evidence of Fading Faith
James A. Haught


OBITUARIES

Sergei Kapitza, 1928–2012
Thomas Szasz, 1920–2012
Sean Lachut


DEPARTMENTS

Church-State Update
Hansel, Gretel, and Today’s Abortion Wars
Edd Doerr

God on Trial
How Christians Can Test Their Own Prayers Objectively
John W. Loftus

Humanism and the Arts
A Tribute to Harry Harrison
Guy Lancaster

Humanism at Large
Our Christian Language
Peg Tittle


REVIEWS

Meaning and Value in a Secular Age: Why Eupraxsophy Matters—The Writings of Paul Kurtz edited by Nathan Bupp
Reviewed by John Shook

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Reviewed by James A. Haught

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Reviewed by Becca Challman

That’s Not What They Meant!: Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America’s Right Wing by Michael Austin
Reviewed by Rob Boston

The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ by Daniel Boyarin
Reviewed by William Harwood


POEMS

by Brooke Horvath

Still Life with Lamp and Dogs

Reincarnation

‘Team Up with Jesus’


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1925 – 2012

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