Many years ago, a woman my wife and I both know had a sibling who committed suicide. She was naturally overwhelmed by grief, to the point of despair, and said to my wife and me, “I’m just in this ...

Ariane Sherine in front of a London bus featuring the atheist ad slogan 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life'Akira Suemori / AP The word of God is on the move in London — ...

The cultural ground is shifting when it comes to religion, atheism, and Christianity in the West. Three recent stories in my social media feed are a reminder how quickly it's happening. Richard ...

Evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins, author of the 2006 book The God Delusion, came out as a “cultural Christian” this past weekend on British radio. “I do think that we are ...

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Religious believers are no more generous than atheists—at least as long as they don't know what the recipient believes in. Finding this out increases generosity significantly, mainly because people ...

In one of John Updike’s novels, a minister finishes the last page of The Collected Works of Robert Ingersoll and, in less than the time it takes Updike to complete the sentence, loses his faith. This ...

An atheist group who fought to take down a large cross from a San Francisco-area park said Christians in the community had long enjoyed a "special privilege" of having the religious symbol up on ...

President Trump said at the National Prayer Breakfast that he believes people "can't be happy without religion, without that belief....Let's bring religion back. Let's bring God back into our lives." ...

(The Conversation) — The number of individuals in the United States who do not identify as being part of any religion has grown dramatically in recent years, and “the nones” are now larger than any ...