Adam Gopnik is one of my very favorite essayists, but when he turns to religion, I must turn my head. As with me and economic theory, Gopnik simply doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. I’d been waiting ...

As one who writes and teaches a lot about secularism and humanism, lectures a lot about atheism and agnosticism, and directs a secular studies program, there are a few common questions/comments that ...

John Gray, the philosopher and religious skeptic, reviews atheist Alain de Botton’s new book advocating a more irenic view of religion. Gray says that the militant, Ditchkins-style atheists of today ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Atheism and anti-theism so often occur together within the same individual that the coterie of ...

allow the group to meet. In the opinion, a judge cited the U.S. of what it means to say there is no God. Given some of what we treat as religion, this is a significant commitment. The bottom line is ...

American Judaism has a God problem. Actually, and paradoxically, it seems to have two God problems. One is Jewish atheism. The other is Jewish theism. Here we will look at the data and the dilemma. At ...

The Sunday Assembly is coming to Portland on Tue. Dec. 10. It has been called “an atheist church.” This recalls a traditional argument: Is Atheism a Religion? This is a claim made by some Christian ...