On the Historicity of Jesus Now on Kindle and Nook!
My latest and most controversial (and in-demand!) book is now available in e-book format. At last! You can now get On the Historicity of Jesus on kindle and nook (I don’t know if it’s also available on any other platforms or formats). The audiobook is...Null Hypothesis My Ass (A Christmas Harangue)
Letter to the editor of Christian Apologetics Ministries (ApologeticsMinistries.com): You unbelievable wingnuts. You should totally fire your Professor of Apologetics, Jonathon Hold, from his position at your supposed Iowa University of Religion for being a...Here's a Fun Way to Help Camp Quest
Get in on the action: vote with a donation to decide the Camp Quest Famous Freethinkers Faceoff! (You can also like their campaign’s Facebook page, and spread the word by any and all social media.) Why? Because then, you will actually get to affect who gets on...Appearing in Columbus, Ohio — and on DC TV!
While I continue to work all day in the studio recording audio for On the Historicity of Jesus (thanks to Pitchstone Publishing), while Sheffield continues working to produce an electronic edition (that process is out of my hands), I have to get some announcements...What Will Ryan Bell Decide? Join Our Exciting New Online Course in December
Ryan Bell shall soon be ending his Year Without God. And in a special one month online course, he and I will be debating where he should now go from here: Remain an atheist, or a theist? Join the atheist community and help us move the cause forward, or not? (He may...This. Today. Now.
If you are an American and aren’t voting today because “it’s pointless,” read this. Then vote. You are counted even when you don’t win. Don’t be invisible.Appearing in Chicago This Weekend!
I will be at several events in Chicago this weekend… Sunday morning (November 2 at 10:30am) I will be speaking on my book Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus for the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago (details here)....November Course on Counter-Apologetics: Learn the Best Ways to Refute Arguments for God
This November my online course subject is “Counter-Apologetics: Learning the Best Ways to Refute Arguments for God.” In September I dealt with Boghossian’s one-on-one approach. Now we address a facet of the mass-market approach: how to inoculate...You’ll Want This Book: Christianity Is Not Great
You can now pre-order the final volume of the Loftus trilogy, in print or kindle, which includes two chapters by me, and awesome chapters by many other excellent scholars. The previous two volumes were The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails (building on The God...Appearing Soon in Orange County, Ventura, and San Diego
Later this month I’ll be making appearances in three cities in Southern California. This is a new addition to my itinerary for this year. Wednesday, October 22 (2014), at 6:30pm, I’ll be the guest speaker for the Backyard Skeptics, in Orange County...Join Me in Western Canada Next Week!
I announced that I’d be visiting Regina, Saskatoon, Kelowna, and Calgary. Now I have the details. I’ll first be attending a fundraising dinner in Regina, SK, the evening of Tuesday, October 14 (details and how to get tickets here). Then at 6pm...I'm in Sacramento This Sunday … Selling My Books Dirt Cheap!
If you can make it, definitely do! This Sunday is Freethought Day in Sacramento, California (October 12, 2014), with speakers and entertainment and all kinds of vendors and fun. You can register at EventBrite. The all-day outdoor event is free. But you can donate to...Busy Bee Roundup of Bizarre & Shocking Things
Texas votes Nazi. Sam Harris exposes his sexism. Michael Shermer gets investigated. Richard Dawkins vomits all over the internet. I can’t keep up. Alas, I have been doing nonstop traveling and events and work-catchup for weeks. I haven’t even been able to...Take My October Class: Moral Reasoning from Theory to Practice (Applying Science and Philosophy in Everyday Life)
This will be a survey of contemporary moral theory and the scientific study of morality, with an aim to improving your own moral decision-making, and encouraging the same in others. Register now. It’s a one-month, online, do-at-your-own-pace course in which you...Are You Anywhere Near Fargo? Get to Zeteticon This Weekend!
A whole awesome conference, in North Dakota! Don’t miss out. And help them promote it, by telling anyone you know who might be interested and free this weekend to come and hang out. Zeteticon is in Fargo, North Dakota (September 13th-14th)… I’ll be...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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Richard Carrier is the author of many books and numerous articles online and in print. His avid readers span the world from Hong Kong to Poland. With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University, he specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism and humanism, and the origins of Christianity and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, with particular expertise in ancient philosophy, science and technology. He is also a noted defender of scientific and moral realism, Bayesian reasoning, and historical methods.
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