When Lydia Hartunian first became involved in the atheist community a few years ago, she was taken aback by the aggression she faced from other atheists. “I went into this endeavor - for example ...

Church attendance has been steadily falling in the U.S. and other developed countries for decades, causing a rise in people who tell pollsters that they are unaffiliated with any organized faith.

Is the renewed influence of religion in public life a threat to reason and science? That's the conviction of some nonbelievers aggressively advocating Atheism. We hear the latest version of an ancient ...

Atheism is far from new, but the various ways that people say “no thank you” to belief in gods, deities, or particular religions are so diverse that they’ve had a huge impact on world belief systems.

My colleague Carmel Richardson wrote: “[Richard] Dawkins is right to recognize that it is better to belong to a Christian nation than to any other sort of nation. Indeed, much of his own worldview, ...

Browsing through the ASU events calendar, I was excited to see that Richard Dawkins, the famed evolutionary biologist best known for his harsh criticism of religion, would be speaking at Gammage on ...

Elaine Howard Ecklund, Professor of Sociology and Director of The Religion and Public Life Program, Rice University and David R. Johnson, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Georgia State ...

In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, and that the scientific worldview has rendered ...

Atheism is hardly a new philosophical position in the history of the human race. As long as religious people have affirmed the existence of a god, other, more skeptical people have felt compelled to ...

Creation is, in a certain sense, one gigantic sacramental created by God, in order to communicate his love to us. In her beauty, we see something of the beauty of her Creator; in her vastness, ...

Three unsolicited e-mails, received in the past day, have all prompted or provoked me into contemplation on the human person’s quest for goodness and truth. The first was what can best be described as ...

Some people find it incredible their otherwise intelligent friends believe in a God, a Virgin Birth or the Resurrection of Christ. Others find it incredible that their otherwise intelligent friends ...