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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