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February 2014

February 14, 2014

A plea for gay, er, atheist rights

Those poor atheists. They have to keep their heads down in repressive American society. They...

July 2013

July 05, 2013

Why atheists who pray should still be called atheists

What do you call someone who reads the Bible, attends church, prays daily, and believes...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

That stark divide in Catholics in America and on high court

Shortly before Barack Obama reached the White House, pollster John C. Green of the University...

June 25, 2013

Godless congregations copying Christian churches

Every year, approximately 4,000 new churches are started in the U.S. Out of that number,...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

Winners and losers in our do-it-yourself religion era

No one on the national religion-news scenes writes with more vigor and enthusiasm about America's...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

The nones on the bus

This week the Pew folks came out with a large Global Religious Landscape report. It's...

December 16, 2012

Not all ‘nones’ are atheists

In England and Wales, there were 37.3 million Christians in 2001, representing 72 percent of...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

The ghost of Prince William County

It's all about race. And age. Religion? Uh, surely that's not a factor worth exploring....

November 07, 2012

The day after: The prophet John Green, revisited

It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday's...

October 2012

October 20, 2012

Pod people: Digging for old news on ‘Nones’

Friends and neighbors, the whole media world continues to buzz with news (me too, of...