Richard Dawkins’s Berkeley radio event is cancelled over bad tweets about Islam
The rabble-rouser and author of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins lost himself a book promotion event in Berkeley, reports Berkleyside’s Frances Dinkelspiel, following a radio station’s decision to log in… Read more »
Today in paperback: Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult
Go into the world and preach this good news to everyone: Today, we’re publishing Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult in paperback. In the tradition of writers like Charles C. Mann and Jill Lepore,… Read more »
Warning of Islamic “indoctrination,” Tennessee parent petitions school to ban history textbook
Earlier this year, we wrote about repeated attempts by the Tennessee House of Representatives to pass a bill making the Bible the state’s “official book,” whatever that means. While the… Read more »
Trump-supporting university president loves free speech, promptly censors an anti-Trump student
You may have read recently about Liberty University students’ response to university president Jerry Falwell Jr.’s support of the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Falwell’s contentious discipleship has survived even the release of the… Read more »
Artistic duo cracks Alabaster over Christ’s head and beauty comes out
The canonical Christian gospels—Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John—are receiving a makeover in Alabaster, a new project from Brian Chung, age 28, and Bryan Chung, age 22, a pair of artistic-minded… Read more »
Christian bookstore chain refusing to sell books about visiting heaven, because they might all be made up
What causes 180 bookstores to stop carrying wildly successful bestsellers? Integrity, dammit, that’s what. LifeWay Christian Resources, a major Christian bookstore chain, has officially stopped carrying any book in which the… Read more »
Evangelical writer loses his book deal because he came out
As the Christian publishing world faces down the bankruptcy of their largest retail chain and the subsequent assurance of millions of dollars in losses, it’s understandable that they’re a little gunshy… Read more »
The Atlanta fire chief who wrote the homophobic book has been fired
In a previous MobyLives investigation, we focused on the unfortunate tale of Kelvin J. Cochran. Cochran, as you recall, was Atlanta’s fire chief, and had served in the position since… Read more »