An internationally enforceable anti-blasphemy law is on the march, and according to the chair of one UN subcommittee, resistance to such a backward...
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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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Bill O'Reilly tonight brought back Richard Dawkins to argue over teaching intelligent design in science classes, absurdly confusing unrelated issues...
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The Atheist Alliance International 2009 convention was over, but the best was yet to come. After a perfunctory "closing ceremony," two...
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In the 1930s, a cross went up in the Mojave National Preserve to honor war dead. About 10 years ago, a guy named Frank Buono thought it was a bad...
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A high-powered panel discussion at the opening of the Atheist Alliance International Convention in Burbank, California Friday raised important and...
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At the Atheist Alliance International Convention in Burbank, California Friday night, Sean Faircloth, executive director of the Secular Coalition for...
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The Los Angeles Times editorial page comes down, somewhat half-heartedly, on the side of the separation of church and state. Treading warily into the...
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There is a lot of highly-justified agitation over the engraving of the "In God We Trust" motto and the religious modern version of the...
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