Written by Paul Cliteur. Cliteur presents secularism as a remedy to religious violence and explains how it enhances democracy.

Written by Martin D. Jaffe, M.D. Jaffe uses the principle that the quest for security underlies all of evolutionary biology and psychology to ultimately establish proof against the existence of God.

Written by Sam Harris. Harris argues that human morality is determined by scientific principles.

Written by Betty Brogaard. Brogaard describes her personal experience questioning her Christianity and her spiritual journey from religion to freethought.

Written by Dan Barker with a forward by Julia Sweeney. Barker writes about how Atheists experience their sense of purpose in life.

Written by John W. Loftus. Loftus, a former evangelical minister, encourages skepticism in evaluating faith and describes Biblical errors and fallacies.

Written by Michael Palmer. Palmer explains the basic philosophical arguments behind Atheism.

Leon J. Podles, who lives in Baltimore and in Naples, Fla., wrote The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity (Spence, 1999).

Marcia Y. Riggs is J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga. She wrote Plenty Good Room: Women Versus Male Power in the Black Church (Pilgrim Press, 2003).