House Republican lawmakers on Wednesday accused the State Department of engaging in a “pattern of obfuscation and denial” as it used taxpayer money to promote atheism overseas. At issue is a $500,000 ...

As the Air Force updates personnel records to match the Defense Department’s 31-code system, some Airmen and Guardians say ...

Twenty years ago, Richard Dawkins published his international best-seller The God Delusion, thus establishing “New Atheism” as a major cultural force. Over the ensuing decade, other authors – such as ...

What, if any, are the natural consquences of atheism? This essay will examine some possible effects of non-belief.

Skepticism is a way station on the way to a higher, more fulfilling kind of spirituality, he says No doubt faith is in crisis. But this applies, as is painfully shown in the CNN documentary on ...

Not long ago, I gave an interview in which I said that my biggest problem with so-called New Atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins is that they give atheism a bad name. Almost immediately, I ...

‘Learn then that I, I alone, am God, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them. … With vengeance I will repay my foes and requite those ...

Is atheism simply an idea, or is it a worldview like the religions that it is supposed to replace? On the one hand, atheists typically make a claim about the world—that there is no God—and many of ...

Not all atheists are created equal. Some raise sincere questions; others simply attack. Learn how to respond to both effectively. Sébastien Norblin, “St. Paul in Athens,” 1844 (photo: Public Domain) ...

Phyllis Tickle, who was the founding editor of the religion department of Publishers Weekly, is the author, most recently, of "Emergence Christianity: What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters ...