MARCI A. HAMILTON is one of the United States’ leading church/state scholars, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Program in Religion and Urban Civil Society, and holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in... Read More

JEAN KILBOURNE is the author of Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and So Sexy So Soon:  The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect... Read More

Last week the Dalai Lama made headlines by saying, “That female must be attractive, otherwise it is not much use.” Leaving aside whether he was joking, whether statements like this are okay even if they... Read More

The American Humanist Association recently sent a letter to officials at the Rabun County School District in Tiger, Georgia, on behalf of a local parent objecting to the school district’s repeated promotion of Christianity, including... Read More

Last week, Mother Jones reported that 5,433 people living in the world’s seventh largest economy have no running water—nothing coming out of their kitchen or bathroom faucets. This headline, which may seem more appropriate in... Read More

Bananas, the fruit Ray Comfort once described as the “atheists’ nightmare” (because they’re made by God to fit perfectly into the human hand), seem to now be facing God’s wrath—or, more realistically, a fungal disease... Read More

On January 19, 2006, the New Horizons probe set sail from Earth at the record-breaking launch speed of 36,000 miles per hour. Its destination was Pluto—that previously unseen dwarf planet, sitting three billion miles away,... Read More