Part 1: Writers Who Chronicle Their Own Spiritual Journey
1. Julia Sweeney in performance of Letting Go of God. Her book My Beautiful Loss of Faith Story is due in May of 2009.
2. Martin Gardner: The Flight of Peter Fromm and his collection of essays The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener.
3. H.G. Wells: God the Invisible King
Part 2: Writers Who Examine the Reliability of Scriptures
1. Bart Ehrman: Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium and Misquoting Jesus, to name just a couple of many.
2. Elaine Pagels: Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, to name just one of many.
3. H.L. Mencken: Treatise on the Gods
Part 3: Writers Who Question the Motives of St. Paul
1. Hyam Maccoby: The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity
2. AN Wilson: Paul: The Mind of the Apostle
Part 4: Writers Who Argue That Morality Exists, and in Fact Works More Effectively, in a Non-Theistic Worldview
1. Elizabeth Anderson: Her essay "If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?" is published in Philosophers Without Gods and The Portable Atheist.
2. Sam Harris: The End of Faith
3. Christopher Hitchens: God Is Not Great
Part 5: Writers Who Explain the Psychology Behind Religion
1. Alfred North Whitehead: Religion in the Making
2. Erich Fromm: Escape from Freedom and The Art of Loving
Part 6: Theist But Non Literalist Writers Who Interpret Scripture to Rescue a Loving God from the Jaws of a Tribal God:
1. Marcus Borg: The Heart of Christianity and Reading the Bible Again for the First Time
2. Rubel Shelly: Divorce and Remarriage: A Redemptive Theology
3. Rufus M. Jones: Fundamental Ends of Life
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