Lesley Hazleton’s mind is too restless to accept a religious creed, yet too open to reject the idea of God. This tension ripples through “Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto,” a group of eight provocative ...

Lesley Hazleton’s latest picks apart the binaries of faith, arguing that atheists and holy rollers should both just relax a little bit. Consider: A stranger calls you on the phone, says she’s ...

Q. Lawyer and author Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Charles Manson and members of the Manson Family in 1971 for the Tate and LaBianca murders, will appear at Glendale Central Library on July 27 to ...

Let’s get one thing straight: Agnosticism is not some kind of weak-tea atheism. Agnosticism is not atheism or theism. It is radical skepticism, doubt in the possibility of certainty, opposition to the ...

On the face of it, this slim volume of essays on ‘Literature against Fundamentalism’ is intended for a community of scholars and students of literature. Yet, on closer look, this narrow positioning of ...

Lesley Hazleton, delightfully, does not put up with anyone’s bullshit. If you’ve seen her read, you’ve probably seen her dismantle some lazy idea using just her smoky voice and easy laugh. If you ...

I LOVE Lesley Hazleton's sentences. Their slow and steady cadences comfort me, and they reflect the extremely balanced-seeming mind that creates them. Take this one, for instance: "Blessedly ...

Today's technology has overtaken religion as the chief influence on twenty-first century life and community. In Tech Agnostic, Harvard and MIT's influential humanist chaplain Greg Epstein explores ...