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By Erin Williamson "Consider Humanism,” the largest and most far-reaching atheist ad campaign ever to launch in the United States, challenged the Religious Right... Read More

What Next for Gay Marriage?

by Kenneth W. Krause •

Voters here in Wisconsin passed a ban on same-sex marriage in the fall of 2006. The following morning, I thoughtlessly tried to console a... Read More

The Nature of Great Coincidences

by Andrew Zak Williams •

When I was at university my friend Bruno claimed to have the ideal pickup line. He’d approach a woman in a bar and say... Read More

Plato, Romance, and Self-Inquiry

by John Bardi •

If philosophy has all along proclaimed the unexamined life to be not worth living, it seems not yet to have grasped that the unloving... Read More

Pastors & Politics Why is the IRS letting tax-exempt churches play politics?

by Larry Keller •

Speaking to his congregation at Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, in September, Pastor Paul Blair proclaimed himself a “God-fearing Oklahoman” and a “patriotic... Read More