Index by Issue - January 1999 to Present

November 2004

• Unsigned Notice: Book Club Meets to Discuss Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby Nov 4
• Arents, John: (Report on Alan Brown talk) The History of, and Challenges to, Separation of Church and State
• Claborne, Conrad: A Humanist Answers Brad Wheeler's Questions
• Rafferty, John: Comment on Claborne, this issue
• Unsigned Notice: Renew Now, and Beat the Price Hike
• Mandel, George: The Chaos Candidate. Civil War Two, Anyone?
• Abrams, Sol: What If George W. Bush Were Running Against Thomas Jefferson?
• Unsigned (R): What If George Bush Were Running Against Jesus?
• Rafferty, John: Get Out The Vote? Not Necessarily.
• Berland, Howard: GB Good-Bye
• Rowell, George: (Report on Samuel Huntington's book) "The Clash of Civilizations and The Remaking of World Order"
• Claborne, Conrad: (Report on CFI-MetroNY panel) "The Ethics of Deception"
• Cross, David (R) filler: "Crossing Over?" No, church!
• Rafferty, John: "Is God In Our Genes?" Yes, If It Sells Magazines.
• Zimmer, Carl (R): "Is God In Our Genes?" Probably Not, Certainly Not Proved
• Harris, Art: "Is God In Our Genes?" No, and Don't Be Ludicrous
• Unsigned: One Last Shot at G.W.B. (laundry label)
• Unsigned: Some Changes in the SHSNY Book Club Schedule
• Unsigned Notice: Natalie Angier in Public Forum Dec. 14
• Kelly, Rebecca: Wait, Wait É One More Shot at Bush ("foolish consistency")

October 2004

• Unsigned Notice: 10/23 lecture: Massimo Pigliucci on "Is Evolution a Logical Fallacy?"
• Abrams, Sol: George W. Bush's GOP Has Become the POG
• Light, Flash: If the 2000 Election Had Turned Out Differently
• Marxer, Donna: The Elephant In My Living Room
• Mandel, George: The Dumbell's Dilemma
• Takaroff, Rob: Secular Greens
• Wheeler, Brad: Some Humanist Humility, Please
• Unsigned (R): Convert Or Go To Jail
• Schissel, Dr. Chic: Is Absence of Evidence Evidence of Absence?
• Dunn, Russell: Palindrome
• Layzer, David (R): Two Visions of Truth
• Hedges, Chris (R): Do We Secretly Love War?
• Unsigned: See, We're Just Like Everyone Else
• Rafferty, John: A Modest Proposal for Equality Under the Law
• Rafferty, John: Celebrate Freethought Day October 12
• Unsigned Notice: Book Club Meets to Discuss Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby Nov 4

September 2004

• Notice: Alan Brown talk 9/30/04, Separation of Church and State
• Notice: Massimo Pigliucci talk 10/23/04, Is Evolution a Logical Fallacy?
• Unsigned: SHSNY Elects New Board Members, A New Treasurer
• Unsigned: Thank You, Remo (Cosentino)
• Harris, Dorothy: Militant Christians
• Unsigned: Human Problems and Godly Solutions in 21st Century Asia
• Unsigned: The Presidential Issues of PIQUE
• Rafferty, John: Why Humanists Must Fire George W. Bush
• Kerry, John (filler): (America needs a president to promote science)
• Schissel, Chic (filler): (Bush worst president)
• Ferrara, Maria (filler): (Vote for Kerry)
• Harris, Art: Voting for Kerry, Holding My Nose
• Rooney, Andy (R): Using the Flag
• Hertzberg, Hendrick (R): New Time Religion
• Brandeis, Louis (filler): (most important political office is private citizen)
• Light, Flash: Big Bang Theory
• Easterbrook, Gregg (R): The End Is Nigh?
• Fuller, Buckminster (filler): (nothing in universe is obvious)
• Anonymous (R): The Gods of Yesterday (poem)
• Unsigned (R): "JesusDressUp" Site is Crucified, then Resurrected
• Unsigned: Of Buddhists É and Brights É and Brooklyn
• Notice: Two New SHSNY Book Club Dates (9/22/04; 11/04/04)

July 2004

• Arents, John: (Report on Ezra Kulko talk) How Life Started On Earth
• Rafferty, John: Prayer Scam
• Hillman, John W. (R): Alternative Medicine Belongs In Our Free Market
• Schissel, Chic: (reply to Hillman)
• Twain, Mark (filler): Power of imagination to heal or make sick
• Dunn, Russell: Biomagnets: An Exercise of Faith?
• Unsigned: Institute for Humanist Studies Debuts Continuum of Humanist>Education
• Notice: Summer (2004) Schedule
• Arents, John: (Report on Paul Grosswald talk) Cults and Coercion: How Ordinary
• People are Turned Into Extraordinary Fanatics
• Unsigned (filler) Pop Diva Madonna ("Call Me Esther") Embraces Judaism
• Unsigned: In Memoriam (Ray Charles)
• Ehrenreich, Barbara (R): An End to A Feminist Illusion
• Unsigned: Rush Limbaugh On The Pictures from Abu Ghraib
• Notice: Congratulations (Ed McCartan and Rita Cheren)
• Anon (R): My Thinking Problem
• Rafferty, John: The Book Club Reads Doubt: A History, and Meets Jennifer Michael Hecht
• Hecht, Jennifer Michael: The Scale of Doubt Quiz
• Unsigned: The SHSNY Book Club Line-Up for Fall

June 2004

• Notice: June 16 Book Club: Jennifer Hecht: Doubt: A History
• Rafferty, John: It Isn't About Iraq, It's About America
• Unsigned: Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq
• Claborne, Conrad: From the Front Lines of the "March for Women's Lives"
• Notice: A Freethinker Tour of New York, June 19
• Notice: Gay Pride March, June 27
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): Liberal Vs. Illiberal Democracy
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (filler): "bulwark of liberty É strong people"
• Harris, Arthur: Who Cares If Kerry Takes Communion? We Should.
• Johannson, Scarlett (filler): "10-year-old"
• Orlet, Christopher (R): How the Humanists (Not the Irish) Saved Western Civilization
• Unsigned: Mel Gibson's Movie Stirs Passions
• Anon (R): Top 10 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than Jesus
• Shermer, Michael (R): Survival of the Fittest Religion
• Unsigned: It's Only Weird If Liberals Do It
• Sagan, Carl (R): Pale Blue Dot

May 2004

• Unsigned: Paul Grosswald 5/26 meeting notice
• Cosentino, Remo: Remember Why You Became a Humanist? A New Member Writes
• Claborne, Conrad: Matters of Choice #&: Competition Vs. Nurturing & Compassion
• Greider, William (R): A New Mobilization is Just Beginning: Reshaping Capitalism
• Rafferty, John: The Three (Make That Eight) Stooges are Alive and Well in Tennessee
• Shaw, George Bernard (R): Bible Beauty and Bible Science
• Dunn, Russell: Blame Is The Name of the Game
• Unsigned (R): Ask Dr. Laura About the Bible
• Rafferty, John: The SHSNY Book Club Reads Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World
• Hume, David (R): filler "worst skeptic better than best believer and bigot"
• Swartzberg, John, M.D. (R): The Power of Stories
• Charman, Karen (R): Evironmentalist = Terrorist
• Unsigned (R): And Yet Another Terrorist Threat
• Clarborne, Conrad: Howard Waite (1907-2004) A Humanist Life Well Spent
• Unsigned: Thank You, Hugh Rance
• Unsigned: SHSNY Needs More Help

April 2004

• Unsigned: SHSNY Needs Help
• Bovard, James (R): Free Speech Zones
• Rafferty, John: One Big Free Speech Zone
• Unsigned: 2.7 Million More Terrorists Under the Bed
• Abrams, Sol: No Evidence for Exodus
• Mullen, Earl: When What You Don't Believe Isn't Even True Anymore
• Halpern, Baruch (filler): Evidence for Exodus like Unicorn
• Russell, Bertrand (R): FreeThinking and Orthodoxy
• Millar, Kevin D. (filler) No evidence for Abraham, etc.
• Rafferty, John: Editorial Note on C.E. and B.C.E.
• Chase, Caleb (R): A Neat One-Paragraph History of Christianity in America
• Unsigned: The Christian Loving Way (Jews Killed Jesus sign)
• Cronkite, Walter (R): On Mr. Bush's Proposed Amendment Against Gay Marriage
• Unsigned (filler): Another Tunnel-Vision President on Walter Cronkite
• Morford, Mark (R): Where Is My Gay Apocalypse?
• Unsigned (R): In Defense of Biblical Marriage
• Mencken, H.L. (filler): Moral Certainty a sign of cultural inferiority
• Unsigned (filler): Ecumenical Notes from All Over
• Harris, Arthur: Alternative Healing: A Positive Attitude
• Schissel, Dr. Chic: Long Life to Art Harris
• Tennyson (filler): more faith in honest doubt

March 2004

• Unsigned: Ezra Kulko 3/18/04 Meeting Notice
• Rafferty, John: The 2004 Membership Meeting: A Report
• Arents, John: The Historicity of Jesus (incl Takaroff and Sorrentino, same issue)
• Takaroff, Rob: Joshua of Nazareth, As Seen Through the Perspective of Imaginative Time Travel
• Sorrentino, Roger: The Historical Jesus and His Myths
• Durant, Will (R): The Argument for Jesus
• Lifton, Barbara: A Dissenting View
• Alexander, Aaron: An Even Stronger Dissent: "The Soporific Society"
• Unsigned: A Response from "Them" (re Alexander, same issue)
• Rafferty, John: Ask Not What They Should Do. Here's What We Can Do
• Unsigned: Omnipotent and Omnipresent, But Not, It Seems, Omniscient
• Russell, Bertrand (filler): fools certain of themselves
• Arents, John: A Musical Voyage of Discovery with Charles Darwin (by) Richard Milner
• Unsigned (R): The Artists Are Coming! The Artists Are Coming!
• Unsigned: The Book Club Reads Terror In the Name of God
• Unsigned (filler): "Terrorism never works" from The West Wing
• Sagan, Carl (filler): "If we can't think for ourselves É"

February 2004

• Unsigned: Feb 12 Membership Meeting Notice
• Schissel, Chic, Dr. (R): Is Alternative Medicine Really Religion?
• Rafferty, John: The Consolation of Imaginary Things
• Unsigned: You Have a Sore Throat, and É
• Shermer, Michael (R): What's the Harm?
• Rance, Hugh: Reflections In an Appalled Eye
• Sagan, Carl (filler): "É prescription for disaster"
• Dickinson, Emily: (filler) faith/microscopes/emergency
• Unsigned: Book Club Notice 2/17 "Terror in the Name of God"
• Arents, John: Is God Really Dead?
• Liebowitz, Fran (filler): randomness
• Claborne, Conrad: Would Darwin Have Been Pleased?
• Gould, Stephen Jay (R): Evolution's Million Stories To Tell
• Dawkins, Richard (filler): Douglas Adams, puddle
• Clarke, Arthur C. (filler): alone in the universe, or not
• Bryson, Bill (R): A Short History of Your Own Personal Evolution
• Jacoby, Susan (R): One Nation, Under Secularism
• Rafferty, Colin: Your Tax Dollars At Work
• Rowell, George: Altruism's Identify Crisis — Part II
• Unsigned: Christian Love and Charity at Work
• Rafferty, John: Updates
• Unsigned: Straight Reporting, or Sneaking One Past the Religion-Page Editor?

January 2004

• Harris, Art: An Encounter
• Benbassat, Jacques (R): Faith and the Fear of Falling
• Edamaraku, Sanal (R): India Has No Reason to Be Grateful to Mother Teresa
• Unsigned: Judge Roy Moore, In Turbaned Disguise, Comes to New York
• Watson, Danie (filler - R): A Modest Proposal
• Rafferty, John: I Do, I Do
• Anon (L.A. Times) (filler — R): New Hampshire Episcopalians É
• Rowell, George: Altruism's Identity Crisis — Part I
• Unsigned (filler - R): Bend Spoons? This Guy Moves Stars!
• Adams, Scott (R): New Airline Idea
• Anon (Humanist Network News — R): Who Says Thor Is Dead?
• Unsigned: Where Do You Surf?
• Light, Flash: A Humanist/Pantheist Art Project
• Unsigned: Shall We Have A Book Club?

December 2003

• Meislich, Estelle: Revising Galileo;s "Mistake," Reviewing Galileo';s Mistake
• Anon (The Onion) (R): Pope John Paul II — 25 Years of Laughs
• Rafferty, John: John XXIV
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): Bush, The Pope, and Gay Rights
• Reagan, Ronald (R): Religion, Politics and Sex (Guess which flaming liberal É)
• Gorenfeld, John (R): Bad Moon Rising Over the White House
• Shermer, Michael (R): The Demon of Determinism — Part 2
• Arents, John: A Thought On Free Will
• Amend, Bill (Foxtrot cartoon) (R): Too Deep
• Scribner, Ron (R): Do You Consider Secular Humanism Your Religion? Yes
• Dority, Barbara (R): Do You Consider Secular Humanism Your Religion? No
• Rafferty, John: Merry SantaClausmas
• Anon (filler): Christmas: A holiday celebrated É
• HumanLight.org (R): Light A Candle for HumanLight

November 2003

• Rowell, George: An Evening of Real X-Files
• Arents, John: Bulletin from the Nation's Capital
• Rafferty, John: Death Penalty Logic
• Abrams, Sol: Judging Past Villains by Today's Standards
• Unsigned (filler): Bart Simpson says Grace at Thanksgiving
• Scribner, Ron (R): Are Humanists Altruists or Individualists? (intro to Curland & Griffin, same issue)
• Curland, Nathan (R): Altruism vs. Individualism
• Griffin, Phil (R): Altruism vs. Individualism: A Response
• Unsigned: One Humanist Non-Recommendation in the November Elections
• Rafferty, David: Picking Fights With Rabbis
• Maher, Bill (R) (filler): Religion is a childhood trauma É
• Shermer, Michael (R): The Demon of Determinism — Part 1
• Unsigned (filler): Moon Over Murtosa
• Rafferty, John: Thanks to É Whom?

October 2003

• Rafferty, John: Celebrate Columbus Day!
• Shermer, Michael (R): The Ignoble Savage
• Collier, Curt (R): Reverence for Life
• Schweitzer, Albert (R — filler): Reverence for life
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): Whence Animal Rights?
• Barboza, David (R): Animals Seeking Happiness
• Adams, Scott (R): "The Vegan Pounced"
• Unsigned: (filler) Don't eat Babe!
• Eviatar, Daphne (R): Is There a Right to Be Crazy?
• Kleinman, Mark A. R. (R): Faith-Based Fudging
• Unsigned: And If It Doesn't Work in Texas É
• Unsigned: One More Shot at Jeb Bush
• Leno, Jay: On a New Iraqi Constitution
• Unsigned: The Church of Baseball
• Rafferty, John: Socially Useful Things Your Computer Can Do É
• Unsigned: October 12 is Freethought Day
• Unsigned Notice: Dr. Joe Nickell on "The Real X-Files"

September 2003

• Dennett, Daniel C. (R): The Bright Stuff
• Arents, John: Not A Bright Idea
• Kennedy, Sheila Suess (R): Scalia in the Culture War
• Rafferty, John: Scalia is Right, Sort of É So What?
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): It's the Fundamentalism, Stupid!
• Unsigned (R): Sudan Enters the 14th Century
• Unsigned (R): In Our Own New and Improved, Enlightened Afghanistan É
• LaHaye, Tim (R): And Right Here at Home É
• Tomorrow, Tom (R — cartoon): This Modern World, "Christian Terrorists"
• Rauch, Jonathan (R): Apatheism: America's Default Religion?
• Filler: (Apatheism better than Bright?)
• Unsigned: Unilever Looks Like a Fun Place to Work
• Filler: (sign-seeking evangelist struck by lightning)
• Nunberg, Geoffrey (R): If It's "Orwellian," It's Probably Not
• Fillers: (Orwell on clear language; on Newspeak)
• Filler: (T. Roosevelt on "weasel words")
• Berland, Howard: CrissCross (poem)
• Schissel, Marvin J.: Humanism and Flag-Waving
• Unsigned: Katharine Hepburn 1907-2003

July 2003

• Jefferson, Thomas (R): On Independence Day (plus McCullough on John
• Adams' death) — 7/03
• Packer, George (R): (filler re Hitchens on American revolution)
• Sontag, Susan (R): Do Stuff, Pay Attention
• Trudeau, Gary (R): Surprise Yourself
• Unsigned: Your Representatives At Work
• Salisbury, Lee (R): Can We Know God? Which God? (with pic)
• Schissel, Dr. Marvin (Chic): Left: Define the Terms
• Harris, Art: Right: The Definitions Have Changed
• Schissel, Marvin: (letter re "Everybody É Somewhere" June03)
• Rance, Hugh: (letter re "Everybody É Somewhere" June03)
• Adams, Douglas (R): (filler re "digital watches neat idea")
• Unsigned: Our Very Own Christian Terrorist
• Rafferty, David: (Comment re "Our É Terrorist" same issue)
• Laughlin, Meg (R): An Army Chaplain's Christian Charity
• Unsigned: In Other News From the War Zone (Pontifex Maximus pic)
• Rafferty, John: McWisdom Of The Ages
• Unsigned (R): Windex Holy Water (with pic)
• Rafferty, John: How Bright Is This Idea?
• Unsigned: Does Dubya Know About This? (Humanist Helen Keller)

June 2003

• Rafferty, John: Everybody Has To Be Somewhere
• Summers, Lawrence H. and Tribe, Laurence H. (R): Race Is Never Neutral
• Horstein, Michael (R): comment on Summers and Laurence, above
• Arents, John: Affirmative Action In The Good Old Days
• Rothman, Stanley (R): Is Diversity Overrated?
• Milne, Andrew (R): comment on Rothman, above
• Schwartz, Peter (R): The Racism of "Diversity"
• Rance, Hugh: What's In A Name
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): Who Knows What?
• Claborne, Conrad: Should We Embrace Sodomy?
• Santorum, Rick (R): Santorum On Santorum
• Leno, Jay: Jay Leno On Santorum
• Unsigned: The Limits of Philosophy
• Adams, Scott (R): Dogbert On God's Origins
• Unsigned: Idiocy Roundup

May 2003

• Rafferty, John: Emily Litella Lives! (In Amherst, NY)
• Unsigned: Spring Rolled In (And We Scarfed Spring Rolls)
• Rowell, George: What is a Religion? The Origins of Religion
• Rance, Hugh: What is a Religion? Childish Fantasy
• Faris, William: What is a Religion? Evolution and Religion
• Arents, John: What is a Religion? Some Offbeat Religions
• Berland, Howard: What is a Religion? Secular Humanism and Religion?
• Bernard, Victor: What is a Religion? Religion is a Worldview
• Harris, Arthur: What is a Religion? A Crutch For (Most of) Humanity
• Rafferty, John: What is a Religion? A Religion Is É
• Unsigned (American Atheists) (R): Prayer Bullying
• Ebert, Roger (R): Prayer, Vertical and Horizontal
• Webb, Charles, MD: Darwin and the Wisdom of Our Ancestors
• Penn & Teller (R): The Creationist Argument
• Unsigned (R): Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1927-2003

April 2003

• Moyers, Bill (R): Patriotism And The Flag
• Unsigned: Thomas Jefferson: April 13, 1743 — July 4, 1826
• Watson & Crick (R): "Scientific Understatement of the 20th Century"
• Watson, James (R): On Cloning
• Epstein, Alex (ARI) (R): "Science By Permission of Religion"
• Park, Robert L. (R): The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
• Mogel, Karl J. (R): The "Open Mind"
• Rafferty, John: Princess Di Still Dead & AfterlifeTelegrams.com
• Byatt, A.S. (R): Plus ça Change
• Schechter, Danny (R): What's Wrong With A "Happy Ending" News Story?
• Gould, Stephen Jay (R); Thought For An April Morning filler
• Rafferty, John: Freethought Haikus for Passover & Easter
• Unsigned: Why We Live In New York (#36 Psychic Is In)
• Unsigned: "The End Is Near," Or Why We Shouldn't Get Too Uppity About
• Living In New York & "The End Is Near" #2: Uh-Oh

March 2003

• Unsigned: What Kind of Secular Humanists Are We? Primary Allies
• Arents, John: Is "Conservative" A Dirty Word?
• Cohen, Max & Carol (R): Can A Humanist Be A Political Conservative?
• Trillin, Calvin (R): "My politics are simple" filler
• Harris, Art: What Does A Conservative Humanist Believe?
• Flynn, Tom (R): Is Secular Humanism Political?
• Rafferty, John: Can Conservatives Publish In PIQUE?
• Erickson, George (R): "Yellow lines and dead armadillos" filler
• Abrams, Sol: Religious Tradition and the Man-Made Biblical God
• Free Inquiry magazine (R): That's Reverend Mr. President!
• O'Brien, Conan (R): "Jesus, all those big words" filler
• Bush, George W. (R): "Faith-based programs" filler
• Rafferty, John: So É How Are Faith-Based Initiatives Working Out In Texas?
• Washington Spectator (R): Faith Pays
• Unsigned: Your opinion, please: What Is A Religion?

February 2003

• Unsigned: Presidents Day Messages From The Presidents
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): Is God In Your Brain?
• Shermer, Michael (R): Questions About Morality Questions
• Unsigned: Professional Courtesy (filler re porn discounts for clergy)
• Darwin, Charles: ("most beautiful É" filler)
• Ingersoll, Robert G. (R): On Darwin
• Anon (R): ("Bible cruel hoax" if Darwin right filler)
• Weinberg, Steven (R): (on evolution)
• Bronowski, J. (R): (on evolution)
• Morris, Henry (R): (Bible "settles" age of earth filler)
• Wilson, Woodrow: ("intelligent men" believe evolution filler)
• Donohue, P.C. (R): The Suppression of Evolution
• Institute for Creation Research (R): (Ôtear down" evolution filler)
• Pennock, Robert T. (R): (science "godless" as plumbing filler)
• Gish, Duane (R): (God's creation "processes" now hidden filler)
• Gould, Stephen Jay (R): (fundamentalists "discredited" filler)
• Bush, George W. (R): (religion around longer than Darwin filler)
• Gould, Stephen Jay (R): ("glorious accident" filler)
• Tarnas, Richard (R): The Future In Man's Hands
• Darwin, Charles (R): ("grandeur" filler)
• Rafferty, John: Is Religion Darwinian?
• Harris, Art: Cloning, People, Ideas, and Idiocy
• D., Jane: Alcoholics Anonymous For Non-Believers
• Unsigned: Why We Live In New York (#7 Jesus on No Parking sign)
• Rafferty, John: Virtual Religion

January 2003

• Rafferty, John: We're Number Three! We're Number Three!
• Rosenberg, Andreas/Heffron, Paul: Humanism For The Many
• Hyman, Lawrence: What Humanism Means To Me
• Rowell, George: An Ally, Not An Acolyte
• Arents, John: Stumbling Blocks In Holy Writ
• Unsigned: Dim Sum & Debate, Let's Do It Again
• Unsigned: John Arents, Editor, Is Honored And Applauded
• Unsigned: "Primary Ally" Big Winner In "Sense Of The Meeting" Vote
• Doerr, Edd (R): Humanism And "Unbelief"
• Shermer, Michael (R): Benefits Of Nonbelief And Skepticism?
• Gould, Stephen Jay (R): Gould On Skepticism
• Rafferty, John: 2002: It Was A Tough Year For Religion
• Gray, John Maclachlan (R): Why Won't Humanists Kill For Their Beliefs?
• Unsigned: New Year Resolutions For New York Humanists — 2003
• Unsigned: Why We Live In New York (#37 Alabama Supreme Court Ten
• Commandments & #16 California town name change to Got Milk)

December 2002

• Rowell, George: Solstice, Anyone?
• Peikoff, Leonard: Christmas: America's Tragedy
• Rafferty, John: Comment re Rowell and Peikoff
• Rafferty, John: Great Oz
• Ferguson, Martha (R): Philosophy For Life
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): Is Philosophy Useless?
• McCartan, Edward F.: Primary Is Best For Us
• Williamson, Martha H.: Some Cautionary Remarks
• Dacey, Austin (reported by J. Rafferty) A New CFI-Metro New York Center
• Rafferty, John: Apalachin Redux: The Godless Mafia Meets
• Allen, Woody (R): Woody Allen On Religion

November 2002

• Rafferty, John: What Kind Of Secular Humanists Are We?
• Arents, John: The Middle Way
• Harris, Arthur: All The Way
• Wright, Sally (R): "My Great-Grandfather Got It Right"
• Mitchell, Alice (R): Freedom To Believe, Or Not To Believe
• Donahue, Phil (R): My God, My Constitution, Keep Religion Out Of The Pledge
• Williams, Robin (R): Robin Williams On "Under God"
• Rafferty, John: Who Gets The Irony Cross For Achievement In American History?
• Creasy, William (R): Islam And Democracy
• Rafferty, John: Comment re above
• Harris, Arthur: 72 Virgins
• Huntington, Samuel P. (R): Islam And The Godless, Seductive West
• Rafferty, John: Dropping The Pilot

October 2002

• Rafferty, John: Myths To Live By, And To Kill For
• Williamson, James W., M.D.(R): Science And Health
• McKie, Robin (R): Has Evolution Stopped?
• Rafferty, John: (comment re McKie, same issue)
• Armstrong, Karen (R): Fundamentalism Today
• Buckley, William F., Jr. (R): Fasting For Church/State
• Bard, Martin (R): Forgiveness
• Flushing Remonstrance, The (R): (filler re church and state)
• Victoria Regina (R): (filler re church and state)
• Arents, John: Valedictory

September 2002

• Rowell, George: Empathy Needs Some Help
• Friedberg, Barbara: Religion In A Free-Thinking Home: 2
• Traficant, James (R): ("godless scientists can't find toilet" filler)
• Harris, Arthur: ("Saint" Juan Diego and bribee Torricelli filler)
• Epstein, Alex (R) and Krauthammer, Charles: Two Views On Cloning
• Anon (New Scientist) (R): Paranormal Beliefs Linked To Brain Chemistry
• Rafferty, John: News Flash: Jesus Ousted, Rev. Moon New "King Of Kings"
• Chuman, Joseph (R): Judgment On Atheists, Agnostics, And Humanists, Now And Then
• McCartan, Edward F.: Review of Warren Allen Smith's Celebrities In Hell
• Potter, Stella (R): Marketing Humanism Through Ceremonies
• Bennet, Frances (R): ("capturing spirit orbs" filler)
• Abrams, Sol: When The Persecuted Become The Persecutors
• Anon (Reasonings): Doublethink

July 2002

• Claborne, Conrad: Matters Of Choice: 6: A Test Of Patriotism?
• Rance, Hugh: Odious Airs
• Gould, Stephen Jay (R): ("excitement of evolution" filler)
• Brandkamp, Laura (reported by John Arents): Shamanism: The Truth Behind The Myth
• Futrell, Mynga and Geisert, Paul (reported by John Arents): Teaching
• About Religion In Public Schools
• Rowell, George: No Compromise On Principles
• Morley, Patrick (R): ("America in moral decay" filler)
• Lifton, Barbara G.: (letter re Rafferty 5/02 and no women in SHSNY)
• Rafferty, John ("The Editors"): (response to Lifton, same issue)
• Armstrong, Herbert (R): ("evolution as ignorance" filler)

June 2002

• Rowell, George: Is Secular Humanism Progressing?
• Cagney, Terry: Let's Not Drive People Away
• Claborne, Conrad: Matters Of Choice: 5: Bullies And Predators
• Benbassat, Jacques (R): Empathy Will Do Nicely
• Strayer, Jim (R): Lower Forms Of Life
• Rance, Hugh: Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?
• Madigan, Timothy: The True Believer Revisited

May 2002

• Kulko, Ezra, D.D.S. (reported by John Arents): Why Life?
• Smith, George F. (R): Allah Attacks Aristotle: Philosophical Roots of 9/11
• Rafferty, John: Aristotle Fights Back! Moses And Jesus Help!
• Harris, Arthur: An Exchange On God
• Ahmed Khan, Zaved: Indian Government Promotes Irrationalism
• Nehru, Jawaharlal (R): (add-on to Ahmed Khan, same issue)
• Einstein, Albert (R): (add-on to Ahmed Khan, same issue)
• Brussel-Smith, Irwin: Homo Sapiens?
• Anon (R): Why God Never Received Tenure At The University

April 2002

• Meislich, Estelle K.: Human Cloning
• Rafferty, John: Human Cloning: Who's In Charge Here?
• Johnson, Oriz (R): (add-on to Meislich, Rafferty, same issue)
• Levey, Lila (R): Animal Rights And Humanism
• McCartan, Edward F.: Humanists As Animals
• Rafferty, John: (response to Levey, same issue)
• Gitlin, Todd (R): (added-on to Levey, same issue)
• Kristof, Nicholas D. (R): A Merciful War
• Seidman, Barry F. (R): A Merciful War: An Oxymoron
• Dantone, Gerry (R): (added on to Kristof, Seidman, same issue)
• Sullivan, Andrew (R): (added on to Dantone, same issue)

March 2002

• Claborne, Conrad: Matters Of Choice: 4
• Dunn, Russell: Living With Illusions
• Struble, Chris (R): The Role Of Fantasy
• Schlueter, Roger S. (R): On Critical Thinking
• Edamaruku, Sanal (R): Debunking In India
• Nehru, Jawaharlal (R): (add-on to Edamaruku, same issue)
• Steiner, Alexander, M.D. (add-on to Edamaruku, same issue)
• Toynbee, Polly (R): Religious Extremism Must Not Be Put Beyond Criticism
• Sartwell, Crispin (R): How Can Anyone Possibly Believe In God?
• Rance, Hugh: A Lesson

February 2002

• Rafferty, John: Each One Reach One
• Arisian, Khoren (R): Another Day Of Infamy: Waking Up To A Changed America
• Harris, Arthur: (comment on Arisian, same issue)
• Rothstein, Edward (R): Root Causes Of Terrorism
• Arents, John: (Concurrence to Rothstein, same issue)
• Anon (Pakistani woman) (R): ("I named my son Osama")
• Dantone, Gerry: (add-on to Rothstein and Arents, same issue)
• Williamson, James W., M.D. (R): Sanctified Terror — American Variety
• Faulkenberry, Carol (R): Goddesses Never Die

January 2002

• Castle, Marie Alena (R): The Long And Bloody Road
• Hanson, Victor Davis (R): Ripples Of Battle: Fantasies Give Way To Reality
• Mill, John Stuart (R): (add-on — on war — to Hanson, same issue)
• Hoffman, Madelyn (R): (add-on on war — to Hanson, same issue)
• Harris, Arthur: (response to Hoffman, same issue)
• Ovenall, Sarah (R): Religious Zealot Quiz
• Hoodbhoy, Pervez (R): The View From Islamabad
• McCartan, Edward: (comment on Hoodbhoy, same issue)
• Dunn, Russell: Life Before Life

December 2001

• Dowret, Arnell (reported by John Arents): Freethinking Spiritual Wonderment
• Rafferty, John: It's The Religion, Stupid
• Silverman, Herbert (R): (add-on response to Rafferty, same issue)
• Parker, Kathleen (R): God, Country, Gain Fragile Toehold
• Rafferty, John: ("irony" response to Parker, same issue)
• Buckner, Ed: (response to Parker, same issue)
• Dawkins, Richard (R): (note re religious delusion)
• Rafferty, John: Falwell's Next Press Conference
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): Something From Nothing?

November 2001

• Rance, Hugh: At War Against Terrorism
• Dawkins, Richard (R): Other Thoughts
• Falwell, Jerry (R): (add-on to Rance, same issue, comments re 9/11)
• Arents, John: (filler add-on to Rance, "Éwhy are we surprised?")
• Korn, Bob (R): The Nature Of Faith
• Kosko, Bart (R): What We Need Is More Doubt
• Dunn, Russell: Miracles Or Mirages
• Hume, David (R): (filler add-on to Dunn, ie: "men lie")
• Pigliucci, Massimo: The Wedge: What Happens When Science Is Taken Over By Ideology
• Anon (R): Who's Who In Freethought

October 2001

• Harris, Arthur: Stem Cell Research
• Rance, Hugh: The Way Of The Flesh
• Brown, Diana (R): Faith-Based Justice
• Rafferty, John: "Legal" Lynching
• Benbassat, Jacques (R): The Next Big Changes
• Dantone, Gerry (R): Dogma Reaches The Right And Left
• Rafferty, John: I'm Afraid To Hate Myself
• Meeker, Brent (R): Intelligent And Unintelligent Design

September 2001

• Friedberg, Barbara: Religion In A Free-Thinking Home
• Purinton, Jeffrey S. (R): Our Religious Revival
• Fishman, Arnold: Humanism Vs. Religion
• Schwarz, Patricia (R): More On Science And Religion
• Dantone, Gerry (R): Moral Relativism, Absolutism, And Objective Ethics
• Benbassat, Jacques (R): Mortality Considered
• Rance, Hugh: Against Nature, For The Good
• Berres, Mike vs Castle, Maria Alena (R): Groveling For Jesus
• Castle, Maria Alena vs. Berres, Mike (R): Groveling For Jesus
• Rafferty, John: Good News And Bad News

August 2001

• Claborne, Conrad: Matters Of Choice — 3: When, As A Society, Can We Say Enough Is Enough?
• Rafferty, John: From The New York Media
• Remresh, Sri Leachim (R): Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story
• Anon (R): In The Regulated Beginning
• Caplan, Arthur (R): Darwin Vindicated!
• Dunn, Russell: The Elegant Universe
• Walker, Kim (R): Atheism In The Third Millennium
• Rafferty, John: Must-See TV

June 2001

• Britten, Sherree (reported by John Arents): Being Wiccan: A Personal Experience
• Rafferty, John: Tony, Carmela, And God
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): Red Or Blue: What Kind Of Life Would You Choose?
• Begley, Sharon (R): Searching For The God Within
• Greenfield, Jack: (letter re Rafferty 5/01)
• Kolenda, Konstantine (R): Humanism: It's Not Marginal, It's The Mainstream Of Western Civilization
• Katz, Bernard (R): Do Americans Have A "Civil Religion"?
• Schmidt, Kenneth (R): Whence Comes Basic Morality?

May 2001

• Riggins, Thomas (rept'd by John Arents): Elihu Palmer And The Origins Of American Free Thought
• Rowell, George: Cultural Destruction And Cultural Amnesia
• Dunn, Russell: You're Believing? I'll Be Leaving.
• Greenfield, Jack: Good Or Evil — The Choice Is Ours
• Rafferty, John: Evil And Conscience
• Williamson, James W., M.D.: (note re cortex, limbic and Rafferty, same issue)
• Henick, Alfred: (letter re Riggins letter 3/01)

April 2001

• Greenfield, Jack: Could We Have Lived Other Lives?
• Marshall, Franklin W.: (letter re Dyson 2/01)
• Greenfield, Jack: (letter re Riggins letter 3/01 re Rafferty 1/01)
• Schmidt, Kenneth (R): Intelligent Design In Public Schools: What's
• The Controversy?
• (Arents, John): Two Presidents (Madison & G.W. Bush) On Faith-Based Charities
• Katz, Bernie (R): Paganism: An Improvement On Christianity?
• Dawkins, Richard (R): Memes And Faith
• Haeckel, Ernst (R): (quote re endless eternity)

March 2001

• Claborne, Conrad: Matters Of Choice: 2
• Rowell, George: Christian Literature: An Oxymoron
• Riggens, Thomas: (letter re Rafferty, 1/01)
• Greenfield, Jack: (note re Rafferty, 1/01)
• Benbassat, Jacques (R): Today's Scapegoats
• Anon (R): German Blasphemy Laws
• Rafferty, John: (comment re Anon, same issue)
• Edis, Taner (R): The Rationality Of An Illusion
• Shermer, Michael (R): (note re freedom without god)

February 2001

• Rowell, George: Falsified History
• Greenfield, Jack: Is There A Spirit World?
• Claborne, Conrad: Matters Of Choice: 1
• Dunn, Russell: God's Lightning Rod
• Cover, Dan (R): A Humanist Meaning Of Spirituality
• (Arents, John?): In Memoriam: Karyl Corper Greco
• Dyson, Freeman (R): Science And Religion Can Work Together
• Einstein, Albert (R): (quote re "giving up" idea of personal god)
• Einstein, Albert (R): (quote re "ethical axioms" grounded in truth)

January 2001

• Claborne, Conrad: God: A 2000 Year No Show
• Rafferty, John: (comment on Claborne, same issue)
• Rance, Hugh: (comment on Claborne, same issue)
• Castle, Marie Alena (R): Civil Religion Fuels Anti-Atheist Bigotry
• Williamson, James W., M.D. (R): Something From Nothing
• (Arents, John?): In Memoriam: Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Jr.
• Duncan, Jim: (letter re Arents' book review 10/00)
• McCartan, Edward F.: (letter re Greenfield 11/00)
• Greenfield, Jack: The Beauty Of Ceremony
• Rafferty, John: On Secular Sacred Pictures
• Adams, John (R): (quote on U.S.A. founded on "principles of nature") — 1/01

December 2000

• Sorrentino, Roger: The Fall Of Communism And The Rise of Superstition In China
• Sica, Nick (R): The Utility Of Myths
• Rafferty, John: Santa Claus And Lenin
• Dunn, Russell: Why Santa Claus Must Exist
• Sorrentino, Roger: (comment on Dunn, same issue)
• Dawkins, Richard (R): Is Nature Always Good?
• Edamaruku, Sanal (R): Time To Celebrate?

November 2000

• Greco, Karyl: Aging With Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy: A Window Of Opportunity?
• Washington, George; (except from letter on "religious animosities")
• Williamson, James W., M.D. (R): Irreconcilable Differences
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): The Place Of Science
• Struble, Chris (R): Outside The Box: The Limits Of "Black Box" Approaches To Human Knowledge
• Harris, Arthur: (letter re Sen. Joe Lieberman's religiosity)
• McCartan, Edward F.: (letter re Sen. Joe Lieberman's religiosity)
• Cheren, Rita: (letter re Novak NYTimes 8% estimate of non-godly)
• Kluepfel, Charles: (letter re Riggins 10/00 response to K's 8/00 letter)
• Greenfield, Jack: Male And Female

October 2000

• Rowell, George: Natural Holidays And Hijacked Holidays
• Widger, Jonathan L. (R): Taking Account Of Malthus
• Riggins, Thomas; (letter re Kluepfel and Struble letters, 8/00)
• Hobbs, Tawnell D. (R): Books Covered Both Ways
• Dunn, Russell: Pascal's Wager
• Arents, John: re Warren Allen Smith's Who's Who In Hell
• Kurtz, Paul (R): The Courage To Become

September 2000

• Ramachandran, V.S., M.D. (R): God And The Brain
• Edwards, Frederick (R): What Is Humanism?
• Deitz, M. Lee (R): Religious Humanism: Is It A Misnomer?
• Sheffer, Rodney (R): The Hazards Of Scientific Illiteracy
• Klein, Dorothy S.: (letter re Rowell, 8/00)
• Dantone, Gerry (and Rev. Gregory Mustacciuolo) (R): Original Sin And The Soul
• Dunn, Russell: An Inquest On Incest

August 2000

• Buckner, Ed: It's A Free Country — Not A Christian Nation
• Rowell, George: The Error Of The Rationalistic Fallacy
• Rance, Hugh: Empathy's Limit
• Aquinas, Thomas (R): (on Christian Love)
• Luther, Martin (R): (on Christian Love)
• Kluepfel, Charles: (letter re Bailey in 6/00)
• Struble, Chris: (letter re Rowell, 4/00, and Bailey, 6/00)
• Katz, Bernie (R): The Benefits Of Materialism
• Van Druten, William A., M.D., (R): Into The Tents Of The Shamans
• Haver, Marceline (R): Science, Not Myths

June 2000

• Bucci, Chaplain Dhammika Anthony, Maha Upasaka (reported by John
• Arents): Buddhism, A Relgion For The Irreligious
• Alexander, Aaron: (letter re Bernstein, Morem in 4/00)
• Kluepfel, Charles: (letter re Rowell, Rafferty in 4/00)
• Bailey, Keith: (letter re Rowell in 4/00)
• Dunn, Russell: Heaven Is Family
• Greenfield, Jack: The Source Of Love
• Price, Robert M. (R): Two Grooms?
• Stockton, Eric (R): The Fall And Salvation

May 2000

• Mangialetti, Nada: (reported by John Arents): Miraculous Recoveries
• Dunn, Russell: Down A One-Way Street
• Bailey, Keith (R): A New Religious Litmus Test Emerges In U.S. Politics
• Harris, Arthur: Political Piety
• Arents, John: (commentary on Harris, same issue)
• Pecker, Jean-Claude: What Has To Be Done?
• Klein, Dorothy S.: Let's Get Together
• McNeil, Douglas (R): Don't Help Creationists
• Buckner, Ed (R): (add-on to McNeil, same issue)
• Porter, Lois (R): Secular Humanism In The Next Century
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): The Rationalistic Fallacy

April 2000

• Thompson, Judy (R): In Defense Of Abortion
• Quill, Timothy, M.D. (R): Kevorkian: Hero, Villain, Or Somewhere In Between?
• Rafferty, John: Life And Death Insurance
• Bernstein, Andrew (R): Religion And Capitalism
• Morem, Sally (R): Free Universe, Free Societies, Free Minds
• Rowell, George: Save Humanism From Such Allies
• Greenfield, Jack: Sexual Roots In Religion

March 2000

• Greenfield, Jack: An Atheist's Creed
• Benbassat, Jacques (R): The Question Of Atheism
• Schaefer, Horst (R): A Humanist Views The Inevitable
• Thompson, Howard (R): Six Harms Of Christianity
• Peterson, David (R): To Bash Or Not To Bash
• Coon, Carl (R): Proselytizing
• Schmidt, Kenneth (R): Science And Religion

February 2000

• Harris, Arthur: The Assault On Good News
• Abrams, Sol (R): Milosevic And Moses: Innocent Or Guilty
• Buckner, Ed: (letter re Arents 12/99) — 2/00
• Greenfield, Jack (letter re Rafferty 12/99)
• Thompson, Howard: The Evolving Atheist: Embracing Our Materiality
• Greenfield, Jack: A Natural Heaven
• Dunn, Russell: The End Of Eternity
• Coleman, Diane (R): Are We Ready For Euthanasia?
• Creasy, William (R): Gabor Levy's Farewell

January 2000

• Abrams, Sol: Ode To Saint Eve
• Rafferty, John: The Circus Comes To Brooklyn
• Lavan, Michael: America Today Similar To Rome Before The Fall
• Castle, Marie Alena (R): Governor Jesse Ventura: An Honest Politician In Trouble For Being Honest
• Darrow, Clarence (R): Why I Am An Agnostic
• Young, James A. (R): Arguments From Theistic Agendas
• Snider, Chris (R): An Alternative View On Abortion
• Jefferson, Thomas (R): The Religious And Academic Scenes in 1822

December 1999

• Rafferty, John: An Atheist Christmas, 1999
• Harris, Arthur: (comment on Rafferty, same issue)
• Greenfield, Jack: Millennial Disappointments
• Dunn, Russell: She Said "Yes"
• Benbassat, Jacques (R): Conversion Of The Jews
• Arents, John (comment on Benbassat, same issue)
• Tucker, Rev. Robert P. (R): Evolution And God
• Barrier, Ronald: The Garlic Necklace

November 1999

• Rance, Hugh: Principles of Humanism
• Rafferty, John: What About "Wit?"
• Claborne, Conrad: (Book reviews of Daniel Quinn's Ishmael and Ray C.
• Anderson's Mid-Course Correction)
• Ingersoll, Robert (R): Myth And Miracle
• Hyman, Larry (R): Hard-To-Please Conservatives
• Pigliucci, Massimo (R): Academic Freedom, Creationism, And The Meaning Of Democracy

October 1999

• Greenfield, Jack: On Ethics
• Rance, Hugh: Mercury O'er Religion
• Teepen, Tom (R): Returning Prayer To Schools Won't Fix What Ails Us
• Ingersoll, Robert (R): The Ten Commandments
• Stocker, Barbara (R): A Rationalist View Of Afterlife
• Strain, Daniel (R): Secularism And Evolution
• Lowder, Jeffery Jay (R): Response To Daniel Strain (re Strain, same issue)
• Hyman, Lawrence W. (R): Is Religious Belief In Our Genes?
• Rafferty, John: Kansas Creationists Announce New Curriculum Goals
• Brilliant, Ashleigh (R): The Y1K Crisis

September 1999

• Rance, Hugh: School Graffiti
• Harris, Arthur: Religion In The News
• Lavan, Michael: The False Crutch That Is Religion
• Buckner, Ed (R): What's The Good News?
• Greenfield, Jack: The Clergy As Unskilled Labor (plus response to Arents)
• Arents, John: (comment re Greenfield same issue)
• Stockton, Eric (R): Perfection, Function, Design, And Chance
• Rafferty, John: Godsigns
• Rance, Hugh: (additions to Rafferty, same issue)

August 1999

• Harris, Arthur: Gore Gores Government For God
• Rowell, George: Where Was Freud?
• Rafferty, John: When I Found Out
• Rance, Hugh: Jointly Filing
• Arents, John: Equal Opportunity Dogmatism
• Greenfield, Jack: (letter re Hyman 6/99)
• Claborne, Conrad: Let God Speak For Himself
• Dunn, Russell: Why Religion? — Why Not?
• Anon (R): The Thermodynamics Of Hell

June 1999

• Spanier, Dr. Ktziah (reported by John Arents): The Israelites' Conception Of The Divine
• Rance, Hugh: Afterworld Add On
• Schmidt, Ken (R): Darwin's Dangerous Idea: How The Religious Right Is Right
• Barefield, Thomas (R): Around In Circles
• Harris, Arthur: Pondering On God (For A Change)
• Greenfield, Jack: The Divine And The Insane: An Opinion On Religion And Madness
• Hyman, Larry (R): From Atheism To Humanism

May 1999

• Balmer, Randall (reported by John Arents): How Do Fundamentalists Think?
• Rance, Hugh: Averted Gazes
• Michael, Bob (R): Religion At Its Worst
• Drake, Robert (R): Humanist Hypocrisy
• Stevenson, L. E., Metaphysician: (Letter re Lavan 1/99)
• Ellsworth, Will (R): Coping With Hate In America, Part II: Biases And Relgion
• Anon (Center for Renewal of Science & Culture) (R): A Message From The Other Side

April 1999

• Carroll, Damian (R): Converting Friends: Why Don't They Get It?
• Hyman, Larry (R): Sex, Politics And Humanism
• Abrams, Sol: The Judeo-Christian And Greco-Roman Traditions
• Strain, Daniel T. (R): Subjectivism And Morality
• Rance, Hugh: Emergence In Physical Systems
• Ellsworth, Will (R): Coping With Hate In America, Part I
• Rafferty, John D.: Hate Crime Laws: A Dissenting View

March, 1999

• Gross, Paul R., Harvard University (R): Downsizing Darwin
• Dunn, Russell (R): The Kite That Brought Down Religion
• Abrams, Sol: Moses: Words Versus Deeds
• Kagin, Edwin (R): On Competentiating Children
• Rowell, George: Review of Gerald Messadie: "A History Of The Devil"
• Stevenson, L. E., Metaphysician: (Letter re Bertrand Russell filler 12/98)
• Dunn, Russell (R): The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Implications For Religion
• Arents, John: (comment re Dunn this issue, ie: God as a scientist)
• Rance, Hugh: Musings

February 1999

• Mithout, Bruno: Strange Aspects Of American Life As Seen By A French Resident
• Klein, Dorothy S.: On Hatred And Victimhood
• Silverman, Herb (R): Voluntary And Involuntary Peculiarities
• Hyman, Larry (R): What's Wrong With Extremism In Politics?
• Greenfield, Jack: Is Immortality Dead?
• Fix, Sybil (R): High Profile: Herb Silverman

January 1999

• Benbassat, Jacques (R): Thoughts On The Matthew Shepard Murder
• Arents, John: Thoughts On Free Speech
• Garber, Robert B. (R): Is Man Really Rational?
• Benbassat, Jacques (R): Omniscience And The Immutable Future
• Lavan, Michael D.: Free Will: A Dialectic Between A Scientist And A Theologian