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CONTENTS

69 (2009)/6 (Nov./Dec.)

1 Letters
2 The Issue at Hand
3 Right Wingers Call Social Studies an Attack on Religion Quinn, Dan
4 The Army Experience Center's Bad Experience Swanson, David
5 Darwin Drama Raises Questions for Both Sides McCammon, Michael
6 Comes a Horseman Myers, P.Z.
7 SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT : Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe Epstein, Greg
8 Memoir of a Spiritual Refugee Garden, Mary
9 The Dog Delusion Pedersen, April
10 Humanist Essay Contest Winners - FIRST PRIZE : China's Problem Children: Migrant Labor in the World's Factory Pergolini, Justin
11 Church & State - Persecution Complex : Who's the Real Victim of Discrimination? Boston, Rob
12 Poetry - "Fertile Earth" Whitehouse, Anne
13 First Person - God in My Brain Rozanski, Robin
14 The Good Book - "Moral Relativism," Religious Faith, and the Law Krause, Kenneth W.
15 Reviews - The Means of Reproduction - by Michelle Goldberg Tapp, Robert B.
16 Winning the Long War - by Ilan Berman Soufer, Ed
17 Eiffel's Tower - by Jill Jones Schneider, Howard
18 Worth Noting Gajewski, Karen Anne

69 (2009)/5 (Sep./Oct.)

1 Letters 2
2 The Issue at Hand 3
3 Humanism and the Burqa Bugaboo Leach, J.F. 4
4 The Death of the War on Drugs Jablecki, Lawrence 4-8
5 THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW with NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Bardi, Jennifer 9-11
6 Musings of a Solo - Ist Astrophysicist Tyson, Neil de Grasse 12-17
7 An "Eco" Systems Approach : Reproductive Rights Go Green Baird, Joni 18-22
8 Baptism in Broad-mindedness : Saving Future Teachers from Creationism Naff, Clay Farris 23-28
9 Vampire Bankers (or the Nuts and Bolts of the Scam) Ibarra, Morgan 29-34
10 Church & State - Claims of Conscience : Setting the Ground Rules When Rights Collide Boston, Rob 35-36
11 Media Beat - Abstract Quality Journalism for War Solomon, Norman 37
12 Philosophically Speaking - Confessions of a Prayer-Struck Atheist Case, Spencer 38-39
13 First Person - Original Intent Braasch, Sarah 40-41
14 The Good Book - Ordinary Aspirations vs. Official Abuses, and the Promise of Plasticity in America Krause, Kenneth W. 42-44
15 Reviews - Morality Without God? - by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Lamal, Peter 45
16 An Edible History of Humanity - by Tom Standage Schneider, Howard 45-47
17 Worth Noting 48

69 (2009)/4 (July/Aug.)

Features
10 Nothing Sacred: What We Talk about When We Talk about Torture by Clayton Whitt
14 Torture and Magic Tricks by Andrew Cederdahl
16 Who's Being Protected under the Searing Bright Light? by David Swanson
19 Hidden from History by Cleo Fellers Kocol
23 Counterfeiting Tradition by Luis Granados
28 THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW with WILLIAM LOBDELL by Jesse Galef
31 Star Trek Made Me an Atheist by Nick Farrantello
Columns
37 Church & State
David Barton: The Religious Right's Master of Phony History by Rob Boston
38 First Person
(Re)moved by the Holy Spirit by Hugh Kramer
40 P.S.: Reader Commentary
Departments
2 Letters
3 The Issue at Hand
4 Up Front
If English Was Good Enough for Jesus... by Katrina Voss
Gay Marriage and the "Bigot" Card by John Corvino
Playing With Fire — Francis Collins and the National Institutes of Health by Paul S. Brookes
41 The Good Book
Unlimited Potential or Uncertain Peril? Genomes, "Genes for," and GMOs by Kenneth W. Krause
44 Reviews
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco review by Michael Hsu
Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie by Philip Appleman review by Barry Klassel
48 Worth Noting

69 (2009)/3 (May/June)

Features
10 Lockdown:Are Teens (and Taxpayers) Paying the Price at Christian Reform Schools? by Michele Tresler-Ulriksen
16 School Spirit by Thomas Mates
21 Operation Babylift: An Adoptee's Perspective by Kevin Minh Alien
26 Rational Sunday School by Ute Mitchell
30 THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW with EBOO PATEL by Adam C. LaMonica
Columns
33 Church & State
Faith and Freedom: What's Conservative about School Prayer? by Rob Boston
35 Media Watch
The Truth by Michael I. Niman
37 Philosophically Speaking
The Reason "Everything Happens for a Reason" by Ronald Aronson
39 First Person
Bad/Good Teachers by Herb Silverman
Departments
2 Letters
3 The Issue at Hand
4 Up Front
Let's Talk about Dying by Bill Colby
External Damnation by Rob Larson
15 Poetry
"Attendance Check" by Bruce Lader
41 The Good Book
Intelligence, Language, Morality: The Neuroscience of Human Endurance by Kenneth W. Krause
44 Reviews
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes review by Howard Schneider
Living Without God by Ronald Aronson review by Chris Brockman
48 Worth Noting

69 (2009)/2 (March/April)

1 Letters 2
2 The Issue at Hand 3
3 Israel in Gaza Lerner, Rabbi Michael 4
4 The Obama National Security Team : Old Wine in Old Bottles
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5 Religion in the Ranks : Members of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers Speak Out
Surman, Steven 10-14
6 Who's Your Guide? The Burden of Proof Falls Hard on Nonreligious Conscientious Objectors Frantz, Karen 15-19
7 McGrath's Practice : A Hero on All Fronts Soufer, Ed 20-24
8 The Humanitarian Impulse : Not "God's Work" for this Veteran Westfall, Marilyn 25-28
9 More than a Shout-Out Edwords, Fred; Whitt, Clayton 29-31
10 Who Killed Neil Beagley? Granados, Luis 32-34
11 Presenting Humanism Huang, Jende 35-36
12 Evangelizing : The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Silverman, Herb 37-38
13 Church & State - Invocation Irritation : What's to Be Done about Government Prayer? Boston, Rob 39-40
14 Science Watch - Prosocial Maintenance in the Age of Religious Decline Krause, Kenneth W. 41-42
15 The Good Book 43-45
16 Satirically Speaking - Pedaling Our Way to Energy Independence Facelli, Jonathan 46-47
17 Worth Noting 48

69 (2009)/1 (Jan./Feb.)

1 Letters
2 The Issue at Hand
3 Cry If You Want To : Cases of Mistaken Atheism Still Offensive Frantz, Karen
4 Son of a Humanist Niose, David A.
5 Life in the Pack : Of Dogfights and Social Moralities Jamieson, Bryan Zepp
6 Darwin Day Celebration; The International Recognition of Darwin, Science, and Humanity Stephens, Robert J.
7 The Evolution of the Mind and What it Means to Humanism March, Frederic
8 Change We Can Believe In : "Race" and Continuing Selection in the Human Genome Krause, Kenneth W.
9 Inexorably toward Trial : Reflections on the Dover Case and the "Least Dangerous Branch" - Introduction: A Judge of Character Chapman, Matthew
10 Why Genocide? Edwords, Fred
11 No Water, No Peace : Beyond the Ethnic Battle In Darfur Hussey, Hannah
12 Poetry - "Against Optimism" Harkness, Edward
13 Church & State - Freedom for Me but Not for Thee : Marriage and Mormons in California Boston, Rob
14 Media Watch - "You and Your Dopey Sign" Edwords, Fred
15 Skeptical Eye - What Darwin Didn't Know (Is What Some Folks Believe) Vaccaro, Jenna
16 First Person - Don't Make God Mad Jones, Pete
17 Reviews - The Man Who Loved China - by Simon Winchester Hsu, Michael
18 Charles Fort : The Man Who Invented the Supernatural - by Jim Steinmeyer Schneider, Howard
19 The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder - by Vincent Bugliosi Gutierrez, Donald
20 Worth Noting