LOS ANGELES (RNS) — It started as a small group of atheists tracking and removing religious signs from public streets in Los Angeles. Now, this network spans more than a handful of states, with ...

ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah — In the cold dark of a November night, beneath the jagged cliffs of Zion National Park, Dani Hsia posed a question that mystics and religious thinkers have pondered for ...

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 ...

Atheism is far from new, but the various ways that people say “no thank you” to belief in gods, deities, or particular religions are so diverse that they’ve had a huge impact on world belief systems.

The heyday of the new atheism in Western life, when anti-God tracts by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens bestrode best-seller lists, did not arrive because brilliant new arguments for God’s ...

(RNS) — Raised in an evangelical church she now describes as a “dumpster fire” of fundamentalist beliefs, Laura Anderson’s terror of hell kept her up at night ...

In September, standing before a room full of Christian conservatives, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a bold pronouncement: “I don’t know how you could be a leader without having faith in God.” Being ...

For the past 20 years, Elaine Howard Ecklund has studied scientists’ attitudes towards religion. What she’s found, through more than 40,000 surveys and nearly 2,500 confidential interviews, is that ...

Most people make assumptions about me when I say I’m conservative: that I was raised by conservatives, that I grew up in some white picket fence suburb and, most common of all, that I must be ...

A 29-year-old atheist/agnostic bride on Reddit says her religious family is trying to guilt her into having a religious wedding. "Me and my fiancé are getting married next year. We live in a pretty ...