WE'RE REACHING THE END of the alphabet—and the end of a religious statistical oddity in the United States. Generation Z, more so than the... Read More

LIFE IS SAD FOR US SECULAR PEOPLE. Foregoing church and other religious communities, we endure our drab and dreary days without hope, fellowship, joy,... Read More

"I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND how anybody could rebel against a system so clearly benign." That authorial “I” was John Updike in his self-deluding memoir,... Read More

Computers aren’t bigoted—they’re just based on cold calculations, right? The past two years have featured a steady drumbeat of problems with various artificial intelligence... Read More

In July the House Appropriations Committee voted in favor of an amendment that would allow faith-based child welfare agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ people,... Read More

A recent New York Times piece by Molly Worthen (author of the book Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism) examines... Read More

“Does a flower blooming in an uninhabited wood have no value?” —Lyle L. Simpson (2011) At embarkation, the Jovian Explorer had a crew of... Read More

The late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was no fan of the separation of church and state. In 1985, when the Supreme Court handed... Read More

I tend to cringe when strangers ask me where I’m from. In that split-second, my tongue turns into a spring mattress in bad need... Read More

In 2011, two months before my fortieth birthday, my world was obliterated when I became incarcerated and began serving an eight-and-a-half-year prison term. Nothing... Read More