The symbol I wore when meaning became more honest than faith
It took only one small cross to expose the extraordinary gap between what I felt and what the world insisted on seeing.
Freethought History Webinar #7: The Trouble with Christ Mythicism. With Bill Cooke (27 January 2026).
An invitation to the seventh in our Freethought History Webinar series.
The Ayatollah, Theocratic Fragility, and the Rebellion of Iranian Women
It is a familiar, though no less arresting, spectacle to watch a clerical patriarch draped in the robes…
Neither turban nor crown, but Woman, Life, Freedom
A new nationwide wave of protest has spread across Iran since 28 December 2025. Initially triggered by acute…
France’s rocky road to the separation of Church and state
Despite achieving constitutional separation from the Catholic Church after much bloodshed, the French state is still subservient to the Church when it comes to child abuse, says Keith Porteous Wood.
Looking back, looking forward: a message from the editor
So, here we are, more than a quarter of the way through the century. And it is not…
Merry Stuff
A Christmas poem.
Trains of (Free)Thought #4: On Liberty, Lightning, Luther, and Lawrence
Trains of (Free)Thought is a four-part series of reflections prompted by the author’s travels through France, Italy, Switzerland,…