THE OPEN SOCIETY

INDEX OF ARTICLES

Autumn 2002 to present date


The Open Society, Vol 78 No 4 SUMMER 2005
Editorial: The Image of the Prophet BILL COOKE
Adam's Rib: Almighty Humour ANNE FERGUSON
An Instant Classic: The Intelligent Design Decision RICHARD SCHROEDER
Living Like a Humanist BILL COOKE
What I Mean By Atheism ANTONY FLEW
Towards a New Enlightenment: Conference in Buffalo NATHAN BUPP
Conference Spotlight: Committee for Scientific Investigation of Religion R. JOSEPH HOFFMANN
The New Enlightenment in the Islamic World IBN WARRAQ
The Big Bang: Should We Believe in It? SIMON GEMMILL
My Experiences on the Travelling Road Show PETER HANSEN
Southern Lights: When I Was… RUSSELL DEAR
Thoughts and Comments BILL COOKE
Book Reviews: No More Mrs Nice Nun (Stone); Mao: The Untold Story (Chung & Halliday) BILL COOKE
   
The Open Society, Vol 78 No 3 SPRING 2005
Editorial: Albert Einstein: Sage and Humanist BILL COOKE
Snake Oil, Hunger, and Humanism RAYMOND BRADLEY
Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire JOHN MARKS
Women, Islam, and Human Rights MUHAMMED YOUNAS SHEIKH
Adam's Rib: It's All a Myth ANNE FERGUSON
Antony in Wonderland: Rejoinder to Prof. Flew RAYMOND BRADLEY
2005 Conference and Annual Dinner BILL COOKE
Southern Lights: Dubiosities RUSSELL DEAR
Living Like a Humanist BILL COOKE
Current Comments HAYDEN WOOD
Thoughts and Comments BILL COOKE
Book Reviews: Encyclopedia of Anthropology (Birx); Humanism (Smoker) BILL COOKE
   
The Open Society Vol 78 No 2 WINTER 2005
Editorial: Evangelical Politics in New Zealand BILL COOKE
From Fundamentalist to Freethinker (Part Three) RAYMOND BRADLEY
Women, Islam, and Human Rights MUHAMMAD YOUNAS SHEIKH
Southern Lights: Where Was God? RUSSELL DEAR
Does God Play Dice with the Universe? RAYMOND BRADLEY
Adam's Rib: Living in La-La Land ANNE FERGUSON
Therapeutic Power of Prayer  
Planetary Humanism BILL COOKE
Obituary: Sir Hermann Bondi, 1919-2005    
Living Like a Humanist: Agathonism BILL COOKE
Books: The Eternal Frontier (Flannery) SIMON GEMMILL
American's Most Hated Woman: Madalyn Murray O'Hair (Seaman) BILL COOKE
Radford Reviews: The Aristocrats BENJAMIN RADFORD
   
The Open Society Vol 78 No 1 AUTUMN 2005
Editorial: A Religion of Peace? BILL COOKE
From Fundamentalist to Freethinker (Part Two) RAYMOND BRADLEY
Fertile Seeds in Fallow Ground BENJAMIN RADFORD
Southern Lights: Yet Again! RUSSELL DEAR
Open Letter to Professor Antony Flew RAYMOND BRADLEY
Antony Flew Replies ANTONY FLEW
Did Einstein Believe in God? RAYMOND BRADLEY
Adam's Rib: Arthur Backshell and Alan Brash ANNE FERGUSON
Radford Reviews: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Brothers Grimm BENJAMIN RADFORD
Living Like a Humanist: The Supreme Moral Rule BILL COOKE
Book Review: One Planet, One People (Coon) BILL COOKE
   
The Open Society Vol 77 No 4 SUMMER 2004
Editorial: Words and Deeds BILL COOKE
From Fundamentalist to Freethinker (Part One) RAYMOND BRADLEY
Adam's Rib: Life is Sacred - Yeah Right ANNE FERGUSON
Atheism and Social Progress: Fifth World Atheist Conference    
The Age of Reason: 1789-1989 JOHN MARKS
Southern Lights: Hi Dad! RUSSELL DEAR
More on Graham Capill HAYDEN WOOD
Just War and Jihad in Ithaca BILL COOKE
Radford Reviews: Star Wars Episode III BENJAMIN RADFORD
Is there Separation of Church and State in New Zealand? MAX WALLACE
Living Like a Humanist: The Winged Anchor BILL COOKE
Book Reviews: Affirmations (Kurtz); My Life (Lange) BILL COOKE
IHEU Paris Declaration    
   
The Open Society Vol 77 No 3 SPRING 2004
Editorial: The Positive Message of Humanism BILL COOKE
Rationality the Bridge between East and West BILL COOKE
John Richardson and Charles Southwell: New Zealand's First Freethinker WAYNE FACER
Who Hijacked Christianity? FRED DONNELLY
Southern Lights: Thank God RUSSELL DEAR
Radford Reviews: Hotel Rwanda BENJAMIN RADFORD
Adam's Rib: Me vs Us ANNE FERGUSON
The Struggle Against Witchcraft KAKOOZA SERUWAGI
Poem: The Certainty of Uncertainty DAVID TRIBE
In the Eye of the Beholder BILL COOKE
Book Reviews: Twilight of Atheism (McGrath); What is Good? (Grayling) BILL COOKE
   
The Open Society Vol 77 No 2 WINTER 2004
Editorial: Is the NZARH a Sect? BILL COOKE
From Fundamentalism to Humanism SIMON GEMMILL
Some Thoughts on Civil Unions SCOTT STEVENS
Southern Lights: Belief in Anything RUSSELL DEAR
Adam's Rib: I Know Best ANNE FERGUSON
Intelligent Design: A Defence DAMIEN MARSIC
Response to Damien Marsic WARWICK DON
2004 or 1984? RICHARD SCHROEDER
On Humanism MOLLER DE LA ROUVIERE
Remembering Bill Cook RALPH BIDDINGTON
Radford Reviews: Team America: World Police BENJAMIN RADFORD
Book Reviews: Mother Theresa (Chatterjee), Into the Darklands (Latta) BILL COOKE
   
The Open Society Vol 77 No 1 AUTUMN 2004
Editorial: Braveheart Theology BILL COOKE
Religion as Social Cement KENNETH MADDOCK
The Rewards of Being an Atheist STEVE COOPER
Southern Lights: To Die a Martyr RUSSELL DEAR
God's Own Think Tank PAUL LITTERICK
Human Happiness: What is it? TATYANA PESOTSKAYA
Adam's Rib: Rationalism Saves ANNE FERGUSON
Voltaire's House and the Bible Society DAVID ROSS
Letter from America: Uganda BILL COOKE
Movie Review: Troy BENJAMIN RADFORD
Book Reviews: Intelligence of Apes (Rumbaugh & Washburn) H. JAMES BIRX
Media Myth Makers (Radford) BILL COOKE
The Battle for God (Armstrong) HAYDEN WOOD
Obituary: Kenneth Maddock 1937-2003 BILL COOKE
   
The Open Society Vol 76 No 4 SUMMER 2003-4
Editorial: Secular Values Misunderstood BILL COOKE
A Just and Fair Account? (Sweetman) JIM DAKIN
Southern Lights: Teenage Suicide RUSSELL DEAR
Christendom GEORGE PIRIE
Adam's Rib: Taking the Veil Away ANNE FERGUSON
The Logic of Religious Terrorism MICHAEL MARTIN
Letter from America: An Inside Job BILL COOKE
Book Reviews: How to Be An Atheist (Turner) FINNGEIR HIORTH
Stupid White Men (Moore) WILLIAM HARWOOD
The Atheist: Madalyn O'Hair (Le Beau) BILL COOKE
A Humanist in the Bible Belt (Harwood) HAYDEN WOOD
   
The Open Society Vol 76 No 2 SPRING 2003
Editorial: Right but Wrong vs Wrong but Right BILL COOKE
The Meaning of Life RAY BRADLEY
Adam's Rib: Choice, Eh? ANNE FERGUSON
The Ultimate Paradox GEORGE PIRIE
Southern Lights: I Remember It Well RUSSELL DEAR
The Prophet Motive JIM PERON
Letter from America: From the World's Rooftop BILL COOKE
Book Reviews: The Blasphemy Depot (Cooke) EDWARD ROYLE
Mind Siege (LaHaye & Noebel) BILL COOKE
   
The Open Society Vol 76 No 2 WINTER 2003
Editorial: Losing the Peace BILL COOKE
Intelligent Design: A Defence IAN WISHART
A Reply to Ian Wishart WARWICK DON
Intelligent Design: A Scientist's Response HANS WEICHSELBAUM
Adam's Rib: In Transition ANNE FERGUSON
Moses and DeMille: Parting the Red Sea WILLIAM HARWOOD
On Being: A Rationalist's View HARVEY FREILICH
Southern Lights: Them Again RUSSELL DEAR
Atheism in Indonesia FINNGEIR HIORTH
The Myth of Tibet COLIN GOLDNER
Book Reviews: Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty (Baumeister) MARTA McKENZIE
Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change (Epstein) BILL COOKE
Letter from America: One Nation Without God BILL COOKE
It Happened in March  
   
The Open Society Vol 76 No 1 AUTUMN 2003
Editorial: When the Doubting Begins BILL COOKE
Anthropology and the Falsity of Religions KENNETH MADDOCK
Adam's Rib: Make of It What You Will ANNE FERGUSON
A Dozen Reasons for Being and Atheist (and not an Agnostic) MICHAEL MARTIN
Letter from America: The Center for Inquiry BILL COOKE
The Islam I Believe SYED ANWAR OWAIS
Wrong Turnings RUSSELL DEAR
Southern Lights: U3A RUSSELL DEAR
Religion: The Root Cause of Terrorism N. KUNJU
What Humanism Is: IHEU Amsterdam declaration  
Book Reviews: Myths of Modern Religion (Cooper) JAMES GERRAND
Christianity without God LLOYD GEERING
Reincarnation: A Critical Examination (Edwards) KENNETH MADDOCK
Tom Paine: A Political Life (Keane) GEORGE PIRIE
The Virture of Selfishness (Rand) HAYDEN WOOD
Islam and Politics in Indonesia (Hiorth)  
It Happened in February  
   
The Open Society Vol 75 No 4 SUMMER 2002
Editorial: United We Fall? BILL COOKE
Three Steps to Humanist Ethics BILL COOKE
Adam's Rib: The Executive's Toy ANNE FERGUSON
Prayers at Public Meetings JIM DAKIN
Intelligent Design Creationism: A New Threat to Science Education WARWICK DON
Religious Instruction in State Primary Schools  
Southern Lights: Win Some, Lose Some RUSSELL DEAR
Thoughts on Joseph McCabe DAVID TRIBE
What Humanism Is: IHEU Amsterdam Declaration  
God's Quality Management Questionnaire  
Book Reviews: The Judaeo-Christian Bible Fully Translated (Harwood) BERNARD KATZ
Philosophy in Crisis (Bunge) BILL COOKE
The Passion of the Western Mind (Tarnas) HAYDEN WOOD
Rationalist Saints GEORGE PIRIE
   
The Open Society Vol 75 No 3 SPRING 2002
Editorial: Voting for the Open Society BILL COOKE
In Darwin's Shadow: Stephen Jay Gould H. JAMES BIRX
Adam's Rib: The Importance of Being Useless ANNE FERGUSON
Who are the Mormons? RAYMOND RICHARDS
NZ's Freethought Heritage, Chapt. 8: Early Years of NZ Rationalism JIM DAKIN
Southern Lights: Proportionally Speaking RUSSELL DEAR
The Problem of Chronology WILLIAM HARWOOD
"Yes, But What Do You Do?" BILL COOKE
   
The Open Society Vol 75 No 2 WINTER 2002
Editorial: Undeniable presumptuousness amuses the godless BILL COOKE
Creative Rationalism and Positive Atheism in India BILL COOKE
Gora Centenary Celebrations  
Adam's Rib: Hug an Atheist Today ANNE FERGUSON
New Zealand's Freethought Heritage, Chapter 7 JIM DAKIN
Does the Earth go around the Sun? BRUCE ROBERTSON
Southern Lights: Mutually Exclusive Belief Systems RUSSELL DEAR
Book Reviews: A Rebel to his Last Breath (Cooke) DAVID TRIBE
The Great Skeptic CD BILL COOKE
Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation (Fiorenza) BILL COOKE
Two Masters (Peron) HAYDEN WOOD
   
The Open Society Vol 75 No 1 AUTUMN 2002
Editorial: To GE or not to GE? BILL COOKE
The Open Society: What our Honorary Associates Say  
The Open Society: What It Means FINNGEIR HIORTH
Stephen Pinker Interview HAYDEN WOOD
Adam's Rib: Practise to Deceive ANNE FERGUSON
New Zealand's Freethought Heritage: Chapter 6 JIM DAKIN
Debating Fundamentalists: Why Do It? BILL COOKE
News From the Front; Current Comments  
Southern Lights: Intelligent Quackery, IQ RUSSELL DEAR
Book Reviews: The Hidden Book in the Bible (Friedman) WILLIAM HARWOOD
Helen: Portrait of a Prime Minister (Edwards) BILL COOKE
Two Masters (Peron) HAYDEN WOOD
 

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