The “Nones” Are Here… And Have Been for Over 100 Years
In recent posts about religious “nones,” or individuals without a religious affiliation, Mark Silk and Chris Stedman at the…
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Not a Review of Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?
Asking how you reconcile faith and science is sort of like asking, ‘How do you reconcile being a scientist and a Detroit Lions fan?’
Read MoreKaren Armstrong, Caped Anti-Anti-Muslim Crusader?
When a friend recently saw me carrying around a galley of Karen Armstrong’s latest book Fields…
Read MoreIn Defense of Richard Dawkins, Awe-Full Scientist
Rather than having fights online my hope is that his new memoir will bring out more of the Dawkins that so many came to respect and admire before he was made most famous for his atheism.
Read MoreIs the Satanist Behind 10 Commandments Challenge Sincere?
An interview with “Lucien Greaves” the mastermind behind the proposal for a Satanic monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma capital.
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Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet
There are other senses in which the Muslim world, by and large, has not ‘excelled,’ and for that perhaps we should be grateful, not caustic. For you cannot claim the planet and eat it too. Nothing the Muslim world has accomplished can possibly compare to the harm done by Western technologies and modes of consumption.
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New Study: Three-Quarters of American Giving Goes to Religion
Atheist Holiday Display: “A” Does Not Stand for “Art”
News last week that holiday decorations in Chicago’s Daley Plaza will be joined this year by a light-up “A” for atheism served as a reminder that though the anti-religion camp may claim victory over believers on many fronts, iconography is not one of them.
Read MoreRichard Dawkins, New Agnostic
The typically strident atheist reveals a softer side.
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Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege
When FoxNews.com’s Lauren Green repeatedly pressed Reza Aslan, a Muslim, on why he wrote a book on Jesus, she was, without knowing it, putting the role of religious studies scholarship on a grand stage.
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