From the introduction by Dan Barker: Millions of good people live moral, happy, loving, meaningful lives without believing in a god.  Oprah said it was 17 years, but it was actually 19 years between my first sermon at the age of 15 and my last sermon...

Godless

What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact the Bible lays out God's primary qualities clearly: He's jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive - and worse!  Originally conceived as a joint presenta...

Every thinking person wants to lead a life of meaning and purpose. For thousands of years, holy books have told us that such a life is available only through obedience and submission to some higher power. Today, the faithful keep popular devotionals ...

Life Driven Purpose

A thorough and hard-hitting critique that is a must-hear for anyone interested in the interaction between religion and science.  It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science h...

God and the Folly of Faith

The story of religion in 21st century America has been defined, in large part, by the stories of zealous pastors moving beyond their faith to embrace a life of reason. But too often, and too quickly, ardent believers dismiss such accounts as aberrati...

The Rise and Fall of Faith

What drives us to be good? How do we even know how to be good?  Philosophers and theologians have dealt with such questions for millennia, but Dan Barker thinks the answers are not so complicated. In Mere Morality, he argues there's no need to appeal...

Mere Morality

This audiobook features a compelling essay on free will from an internationally recognized authority on atheism and author of God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction. Do we have free will? And if we don’t, why do we feel as if we do? In a g...

Free Will Explained

A Mexican immigrant and rising star within the Christian community abandons his faith and comes out as a gay atheist in this exceptionally moving and soul-searching memoir. Fernando Alcántar recounts his incredible journey from poor Catholic boy on t...

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