Looking at survey data sociologists present about religion and secularity, I find the gender differences that show up to be rather striking. Among skeptics of religion, men invariably outnumber women. A typical statistic might have that in a given population of people identifying themselves as religious nonbelievers, 60% are men and 40% women. Interpreting such … Why is skepticism primarily a male thing?

I just got my copy of the greatly revised and updated edition of John Beversluis’s C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion. I am proud to say that I played a (modest) role in encouraging John to bring out this terrific revision. Actually, it is so extensively rewritten that it is practically a whole … New edition of Beversluis on C.S. Lewis

I’ve just received my author copies of the paperback edition of Science and Nonbelief. This means that it will be available for sale very soon. Since it’s a paperback and therefore reasonably cheap, and since I wrote it in as nontechnical a manner as possible, I’ll be interested to see how it does.

I just finished reading through The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief,edited by Tom Flynn. OK, it’s about 900 pages, but it consists of short articles, many which are quite interesting, so it goes fast. One gripe I have, though, is that the final revisions to the proof of my contribution seems to have been overlooked. As … The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief