Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him." On... Read More

By Sgt. Timothy Cichon I joined the Army in April of 2007 at the age of 17. At that time, I was a devout fundamentalist Christian. I was the son of an evangelical preacher, and... Read More

How serious is our disagreement with China over Liu Xiaobo, currently languishing in a Chinese prison? A pro-democracy activist, the Chinese locked him up, the Nobel people decided to give him an award, and the... Read More

By Kabir Altaf On January 4, 2011 Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, was assassinated for advocating amendments to the country's blasphemy law that would prevent it from being abused for personal reasons.... Read More

By Erin Williamson Storytelling, since the dawn of civilization, has followed distinct patterns that anthropologists today can identify. Like any dutiful liberal arts major in college, I learned about "the hero," "the wise man," "the... Read More

By Hemant Mehta After hearing a megachurch pastor treat his congregation like "a group of nine-year olds," popular Christian writer Don Miller discovered that church is not the place to go if you want to... Read More

This week’s featured comic is Jeff Swanson’s “The Littlest Atheist” (reprinted with permission). Will little Bertrand get out of attending a religious youth group sleepover?