The New York Post has been receiving serious and justifiable criticism  for their reporting on the Boston Marathon. Citing police sources, the paper reported that 12 people had died in the attacks and that a "Saudi national" had been taken into custody. Of course, the death toll was thankfully a...

FEMEN, a "sextremist" feminist group based in Ukraine and known for their topless protests, organized "International Topless Jihad Day" this past Thursday. A 19-year-old Tunisian FEMEN activist, Amina Tyler, had posted topless photos of herself on Facebook with the words "Fuck your morals" and "My body is my own and...

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This is my second year practicing Lent. It's not that I've recently converted to Catholicism, or that I'm only...

I don't think it's too controversial to expect the language and labels we use to tell us something substantive about what we believe. As it stands, though, the words "atheist" and "agnostic" don't really tell us much at all. Many atheists often argue that everyone who isn't a believer is...

This post originally appeared on NonProphet Status.

If there was a single cultural currency of the atheist movement, it would undeniably be the Internet language of memes, macros, and Facebook screencaps. Though atheists still make up only around 3-8 percent of the population, depending on...

This post originally appeared on NonProphet Status.

In the New York Times Opinion Pages shortly before Christmas, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote about the evolution of religion. This is of particular interest to me, and I encourage readers to explore work by psychologist Jesse Bering, such as his...

Three years ago, Chris Stedman, my good friend and author of "Faitheist," started the blog NonProphet Status. There was no venue for atheists to join in interreligious dialogue, so Chris created a space where believers and atheists alike could share their stories, humanize one another, and promote pluralism...

Last year, the president of the largest atheist organization in the United States spoke to a group of students organized for the 2011 Secular Student Alliance leadership conference. A focal point of his talk on the future of atheism was the idea of a "sleeping giant," or what...

In a recent debate with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Richard Dawkins stirred some controversy by conceding that he wasn't completely certain that God doesn't exist.

The archbishop prodded Dawkins by suggesting that the Oxford evolutionary biologist believed he had "disproved God," a claim Dawkins then denied....

I walked into Commons early yesterday morning and saw blue-gray smears dotting the foreheads of a handful of my classmates. I'm embarrassed to admit that I was strangely surprised. Of course, I knew that it was Ash Wednesday. I knew that the beads and colored drinks from last night's Feb...