July / August 2011

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EDITOR’S NOTE

by: Jennifer Bardi

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UP FRONT

Erasing Women

by: Luis Granados

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Features:

Slowing Down the Consumer Treadmill

by: Rick Heller

How mindfulness can condition your brain to want what you already have

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Heaven for Atheists

by: Valerie Barbaro

Behind the urge to cryopreserve… one’s body or just the head

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The Humanist Interview with Andrea Steele

by: Nick Farrantello

The founder and executive director of the Freethought Film Festival Foundation on what makes a “humanist” movie

SIDEBAR: Feature films of the Freethought Film Festival

Real to Reel

by: Nick Farrantello

Ten Classics in Humanist Cinema

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HUMANISM 101

Why Half the People Joining Churches Choose the Mega Variety

by: Michael Werner

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FIRST PERSON

A Humanist’s War Memory: “Spinach Music”

by: David H. Kaplan

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BOOK REVIEWS

The Techno-Human Condition By Braden R. Allenby & Daniel Sarewitz

Review by: Jende Andrew Huang

Sex, Mom & God By Frank Schaeffer

How the Bible’s Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics—and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway

Review by: Rob Boston