It’s Time to Get to Know the “Nones”
by: Chris Stedman and Vlad Chituc Last year, the president of the largest atheist organization in the United States spoke to a group of students organized for the 2011 Secular Student […]
Category Archives: Atheism
Faith Is Not A Mental Illness
by Miriam Mogilevsky I’ve been seeing a disturbing tendency among atheists to compare religious belief to mental illness. Sometimes this comparison is made explicit, as in this article. Other times, however, […]
No More Bandaids: A Call to the Freedom from Religion Foundation and Mainstream Atheist Organizations
by: Andrew Tripp Last Monday, I got this e-mail from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, with the subject title “Tell Illinois schools to stand by Jessica Ahlquist!”: Three Illinois public […]
In Our Words In Review: Faith and Humanism
by: The In Our Words Writing Staff As In Our Words approaches our first anniversary next month, we are taking this week to look back at the past year and […]
Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril
by: Chris Stedman When I first heard that a white supremacist opened fire on a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin a few weeks ago, I froze. My stomach lurched […]
Family Without Christ: Why I’m A Religious Ally to Atheists
by: Johnny Gall Being a progressive queer Christian in the current landscape is not without its fair share of frustrations. Daily I get to watch folks who profess the same […]
Finding Common Ground With “Sacred Ground”
by: Chris Stedman On my last day of work at Interfaith Youth Core, I had lunch with its founder, Eboo Patel. As we ate I told him that, inspired by […]
Reality Check: What the Natalie Reed Controversy Says About Cis Male Privilege in the Atheist Community
by: Andrew Tripp Yesterday, Natalie Reed brought to an issue that needs to make every single person, in the atheist movement or otherwise, take a massive fucking reality check. She […]
No, Mr. Huckabee, It Isn’t a Sin Problem
by: Lindsey Gavel July 20th, 2012. Midnight. Hordes of excited citizens are gathered at the Century movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado for the midnight screening of the latest Batman film, […]
Andrew Tripp: Because I’m An Atheist
by: Andrew Tripp For the past few months, Ian Cromwell, one of my absolute favorite bloggers on the planet, began a series entitled “Because I Am An Atheist,” in which he discussed […]
