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Book review: Parenting beyond belief: On raising ethical, caring kids without religion I became a father for the first in July 2007, and until I read this book I was more concerned with how I was going to cope with changing nappies, sleepless nights, and other such things. However, I now realise that parenting involves more than this... (Read more)

Front cover of the book Lifetimes - The beautiful way to explain death to children by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen

Book review: Lifetimes - The beautiful way to explain death to children Every parent will have thought about the time when they are going to have to talk to their children about sex (and most likely dread the idea of doing so), but what about other areas of life? For instance, how (or even when) do parents explain to their children the reality of death, and prepare them to deal with it?... (Read more)

Book review: Atheism - A very short introduction (Julian Baggini) Atheism seems to be quite the vogue topic these days. I mean, everyone and their auntie seems to want to tell the world they are not religious, and then offer reasons as to why people should consider becoming atheists like them. However, rather than read another one of these somewhat repetitive and tiresome 'rants', I wanted to spend time with a book more academically enlightened and informed... (Read more)

DVD review: How to know God Deepak Chopra's approach in this DVD is to engage in trolley-dash around the supermarkets of faith (largely Hindu) and science (largely atomic), pulling ideas down from the shelves of both in order to support his belief that God is to be found on the horizon between matter and experience.. (Read more)

DVD review: An Inconvenient Truth I should admit at the start of this review that I am a global warming skeptic. Now this is not to say that I do not believe global warming is happening or that our actions have had no effect on the Earth's climate - not at all! I am simply skeptical about the claim that climate change can and should be blamed solely on human behaviour...(Read more)

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