Harvard University has elected an atheist as its new chief chaplain.
Harvard University has elected an atheist as its new chief chaplain.
A group of atheists has filed a lawsuit against the state of Mississippi over the state's new license plates that feature the phrase "In God We Trust."
Seth Mahiga, the former secretary for the Atheists in Kenya Society, has resigned from his position. He said that he has found Christ and no longer wishes to promote atheism in his country.
A recent article in The Guardian, profiles unbelievers and explores what they believe the meaning of life to be.
To borrow a phrase philosopher Craig Gay uses in his book The Way of the Modern World, Westerners and Americans are “practical atheists.” A subtle, operational-level form of secularism, practical atheism is not necessarily to believe that God does not exist. Rather, it’s to live as if God does not exist. One major characteristic of “practical atheism” is anxiety. Anxiety is the inevitable reaction when we realize just how out-of-our-control this fallen world is, and how fragile our shoulders – which now bear the weight of the world without God – really are.
A group made up of 19 atheist and secular organizations has released a lengthy “secular agenda” blueprint for presumed President-elect Joe Biden.
In recent months, China’s communist government has expanded its ban on Christian funerals.
A popular scientist, podcaster and self-proclaimed devotee of New Atheism was recently asked which scientific suppositions he holds most dear. While he wasn't sure which supposition to pick, he did offer his belief that the world is totally understandable, the idea that we could eventually find every answer to every question through scientific investigation and that there was no Divine intervention or starting point required to explain life.
According to Esther O’Reilly, skeptics admitting to the Christian faith’s positive influence on history is only the headline of this story (although we’d be remiss to not include the recent book “Dominion” by Tom Holland as yet another example). O’Reilly thinks that under the surface, spiritual truth is being found too, much like the skeptics C. S. Lewis describes in the essay entitled “Myth Became Fact.”