A new survey by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life found that an increasing number of American adults identify as…
Is the increase in the non-religious a “bad thing”?
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Funding for atheists
Recently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave the student organization, Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA) $69,000, the largest amount of grant…
A hard road for an atheist preacher
In an article in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Robert F. Worth writes about the four days he…
Voting for an atheist?
In a recent article, Religion News Service discusses a Gallup poll survey, in which a majority of Americans said they…
The “New New Atheists”
Christopher R. Beha discusses a recent article he had written for Harper's Magazine in which he considers three publications, written…
Harmful prayer?
On April 2nd, Dallas District Court Judge Martin Hoffman ruled that it is legal to pray for God to harm…
Religion and state secularization
In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…
Beyond reductive naturalism
Future histories may report that the public discourse on religion was dominated by reductive naturalism until Robert Bellah’s Religion in…
Why some atheist scientists participate in religious institutions
A curious finding in sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund's national study on the religious beliefs and practices of American scientists is…
Trending atheism
Nona Willis Aronowitz at GOOD Magazine asks what changes might occur when "1 in 4 millennials don't identify with any…