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NBN Episodes hosted by Annie:
May 7, 2014
Organised Sexual Abuse
Sometimes it's hard to imagine how certain types of violence can occur, and organized multi-perpetrator abuse certainly fits into this category. Ritua…
April 23, 2014
Coming Out Atheist
Coming out atheist isn't always easy, but Greta Christina, atheist activist and blogger, has tips to make it easier for those who struggle. After scou…
April 23, 2014
Missing Class
Gender and race are visible markers of identity, regularly talked about both in the news and sociology circles. There is another marker, however, that…
March 27, 2014
Triumphs of Experience
There are very few studies like the Harvard Grant Study. Started in 1938, it has been following its approximately 200 participants ever since, analyzi…
March 11, 2014
My Dog Always Eats First
Homelessness and stigma go hand in hand, and nowhere is this more apparent than pet ownership among the homeless. From nasty looks to outright insults…
January 5, 2014
Dot, Dot, Dot
In the depths of the internet there is many an article discussing the infinity of God. Its authors argue that God is infinite and endless and knows no…
December 6, 2013
There was no Jesus, There is no God
In the preface of There was no Jesus, There is no God (Amazon Digital Services, 2013),Raphael Lataster states that "it is not my job to disprove Chris…
October 27, 2013
The Star of Bethlehem
"And having heard the king, they went their way; and lo, the star, which they had seen in the east, went on before them, until it came and stood over …
September 24, 2013
Paper
In our digital world, it does seem like paper is dying by inches. Bookstores are going out of business, and more and more people get their news from t…
August 26, 2013
The Outsider Test for Faith
With so many religions in the world, how can you tell which one is correct? John W. Loftus tackles this question in his new book, The Outsider Test fo…
August 12, 2013
Godless Americana
Why does it seem like everyone in the atheist movement is white and male? Are African-American women less interested in secularism? In her book, Godle…
July 5, 2013
The Book of Woe
It is common today to treat depression and other mental disorders as concrete illnesses - akin to having pneumonia or the flu. In fact, being prescrib…
May 20, 2013
Nonbeliever Nation
The perception of the United States as a Christian nation is one that is prevalent and persistent. It is difficult to conceive of a time when the term…
May 7, 2013
God and the Folly of Faith
Are science and religion compatible, or are they fundamentally different ways of viewing the world? In the book,God and the Folly of Faith: The Incomp…
February 25, 2013
How to be Gay
What does it mean to be gay? According to many people, gayness is simply homosexuality - a sexual orientation. However, as David M. Halperin argues in…
January 28, 2013
The Enigmatic Academy
According to the Marriam-Webster dictionary, an "enigma" can be defined as "something hard to understand or explain." What is it that is so enigmatic …
December 19, 2012
Daylight Atheism
Atheist blogger extraordinaire Adam Lee has published his first book, Daylight Atheism (Big Think, 2012), where he makes the case that religion is har…
November 30, 2012
Sociology of Globalization
Globalization is one of those words we hear on an almost daily basis. The world today is interconnected in ways that would have been unimaginable even…
November 11, 2012
Racecraft
Racism is a process by which people are segregated and discriminated against based on their race, and race is defined as a set of physical characteris…
November 4, 2012
An Unquenchable Thirst
In December of 1975, Agnes Bojaxhiu, also known as Mother Teresa, appeared on the cover of TIME magazine with a caption that read: "Living Saints." Ma…
October 25, 2012
I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
It is easy to dismiss juveniles in prison as "bad seeds", as people with which we have nothing in common, and of which we want only distance. David Ch…
September 18, 2012
Seeking Salaam
In the Pacific Northwest, immigrants from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia coexist, making a life for themselves and their family in a new country. In th…
July 31, 2012
Charlinder's Walk
In our very first fiction-book interview on New Books in Secularism, we chat with Alyson Miers, author of Charlinder's Walk (CreateSpace, 2011). In th…
July 16, 2012
Why More is Less
Is there such a thing as too much choice? In The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less - How the Culture of Abundance Robs Us of Satisfaction (Harper Pe…