REGULARS
5 Editorial Death, be not
Death, be not proud 6 Godless globe 9 Witness Alice Onwordi, Paul Sims, Carnun
Alice Onwordi,
Marcus-Page 12 Yours sceptically Letters 47 Chris Maslanka’s Quiz 50 Endgame Laurie Taylor
47 Chris Maslanka’s Quiz
Letters
Laurie Taylor feels the love
FEATURES
13 Q&A: Francisco Diego
13 Q&A: Francisco Diego
We meet the urbane
We meet the urbane spaceman 14 A fundamental problem
14 A fundamental problem
Jonny Scaramanga on the poverty of evangelical education 18 Gagging for God The battle for free evangelical education speech is far from over, says Frederik Stjernfelt 22 Faster for the master
After 20 years, is Christian Heavy Metal a thriving subculture or a decaying corpse? Keith Kahn-Harris finds out 24 Interview: Jaron
Lanier After years of promoting the open culture of the internet the tech guru has turned tech heretic. JP O’Malley logs on 28 The many shades of feminism How far has the women’s movement progressed in the past 40 years? Sally Feldman finds out 32 The rationalist way of death There has been a transformation in the way that non-believers are doing death, says Jonathan Rée
MAY & JUNE 2013
MAY & JUNE 2013 MAY & JUNE 2013 MAY & JUNE 2013
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Cover story: Solace in suburbia
A reasonable death
A reasonable death
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37 South London spiritual Matthew Adams finds
37 South London spiritual Matthew Adams finds peace in the churchs and graveyards of Brockley. Photography by Melissa Harrison 41 So, where are they then?
peace in the churchs and graveyards of Brockley. Photography by Melissa Harrison 41 So, where are they then?
James Gray visits a new exhibition in search of the elusive aliens
James Gray visits a new exhibition in search of the elusive aliens
COLUMNS
COLUMNS
17 Chown’s Cosmos
17 Chown’s Cosmos Why is the Sun hot? 45 Poem the Sun hot? 45 Poem There Is No “I” in
Death
Death by P Wooldridge
BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK REVIEWS 44 Marcus Chown
44 Marcus Chown on Lee
Smolin’s reinvention of time
Smolin’s reinvention of time 46 Max Houghton on a unique photographic record of detention 47 Sam Geall on a darkly funny vision of the new China 48 Sarah Ditum finds out how to build a wife 49 Michael Brooks visits
Neil Turok’s Universe Within
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The gagging of Europe of Europe of Europe
MAY JUNE 2013 New Humanist 3
New Humanist 3
