On October 18, I gave an address to the Northern Virginia Ethical Society on the subject of the New Atheism and the divides within the atheist...
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Planetary scientist Carlyn Porco, best known for her work on the imaging for the Cassini probe mission to Saturn, told a convention of atheists in...
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I know I’m a little late to the party on this, but I wanted to share some thoughts about a controversy that recently took place at the...
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's program Compass (described as a show "reflecting and exploring faith, belief and values in Australia...
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The atheist has it easy, and the atheist has it hard. One the one hand, in rejecting notions of the supernatural, the unprovable, and the dogmatic,...
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The Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign had its bus ad rejected by Bloomington Transit on the grounds that it violated transit rules. How? By being "too...
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There was quite a bit of chatter following the front page New York Times story on atheist activism by Lisa Goodstein last week (noted by yours truly)....
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Peace is being made in the ongoing blog-debate concerning the appearance of religious appeasement from science advocacy groups such as the National...
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