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Book Review

The Librarians: A Conversation with Director Kim A. Snyder

  • Melina Cohen

In The Librarians, the latest documentary from Kim A. Snyder, we meet heroines in Texas, Florida, and beyond who are defending books—and the people and perspectives within—from those who would banish or burn them.

Weekly Updates

Humor

Figgerin’

  • Steve Cuno

You don’t need facts and perspective to sort what’s what from what’s not. Clinical studies have shown that all you need is your noggin.

Perspective

The Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Not Helped by Religious Dogma

  • David Teachout

For those concerned about youth mental health, bringing in unlicensed religious adherents to preach their brand of nonscientific rationale for mental health concerns and to potentially ask that issues like anxiety and depression simply be prayed away will only make things worse.

President's Letter

A Fight for the Foundation of our Democracy 

  • Nick Fish

Public education is often called the bedrock of American democracy. That is precisely why public schools have become the primary battleground for the Christian Nationalist movement.

Grassroots

Christian Nationalists Are Coordinated, and So Are We

  • Samantha McGuire
    Samantha McGuire

What began in 2023 as a response to a single bad law has since become one of the strongest interfaith and secular coalitions defending real religious freedom in public education. 

Why I Am An Atheist

Sixteen Years, Zero Regrets

  • Seth Andrews

Had you told my younger, indoctrinated self that I would one day discard Christianity and be better for it, I would have laughed you out of the room.

The Latest

Book Review

The Librarians: A Conversation with Director Kim A. Snyder

  • Melina Cohen

In The Librarians, the latest documentary from Kim A. Snyder, we meet heroines in Texas, Florida, and beyond who are defending books—and the people and perspectives within—from those who would banish or burn them.

Humor

Figgerin’

  • Steve Cuno

You don’t need facts and perspective to sort what’s what from what’s not. Clinical studies have shown that all you need is your noggin.

Perspective

The Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Not Helped by Religious Dogma

  • David Teachout

For those concerned about youth mental health, bringing in unlicensed religious adherents to preach their brand of nonscientific rationale for mental health concerns and to potentially ask that issues like anxiety and depression simply be prayed away will only make things worse.

President's Letter

A Fight for the Foundation of our Democracy 

  • Nick Fish

Public education is often called the bedrock of American democracy. That is precisely why public schools have become the primary battleground for the Christian Nationalist movement.

Grassroots

Christian Nationalists Are Coordinated, and So Are We

  • Samantha McGuire
    Samantha McGuire

What began in 2023 as a response to a single bad law has since become one of the strongest interfaith and secular coalitions defending real religious freedom in public education. 

Why I Am An Atheist

Sixteen Years, Zero Regrets

  • Seth Andrews

Had you told my younger, indoctrinated self that I would one day discard Christianity and be better for it, I would have laughed you out of the room.