The long parade of worldly believers...

So let's ask that question about another group of soldiers who haven't attracted as much talk but should: mothers, many of them single, in combat boots -- and combat zones. . . .

Once in a while comes an historical event so momentous, so packed with unexpected force, that it acts like a large wave under still water, propelling us momentarily up from the surface of our times onto a crest, where the wider movements of history may be glimpsed better than before. . . .

The reason that the monstrous crime of pedophilia matters is simple: In an increasingly secular age, it is one of the few taboos about which people on both sides of the religious divide can agree. . . .

I almost emailed Karen today...

If Obama 2009 is the reindeer steak, Polanski 2010 will be the lingonberry sauce...

For a few interesting weeks this summer—­catapulted by romantic melodramas with a wide cast of characters, including Republican politicians and popular reality-show parents Jon and Kate—the question of opposite-sex marriage and its own meaning momentarily took center stage...

A young woman came by to visit the Policy Review offices a few weeks ago...

In a few weeks, millions of idealistic and enthusiastic teenagers will embark on or continue a time-honored and familiar American ritual: losing their religion...

Dear Distinguished Atheist Friends (that’s Lieber Herren Doktoren Atheisten Freunde auf Deutsch!),...

That’s how I’m starting to think about You!...

Dear Major Atheist Author BFFs,...

Hey there, all You major league atheist Guys!!! It’s me, A.F., reporting for duty again,...

Dear Friends Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens, Onfray, Stenger & etc. again,...

I hope that by now You’ve all gotten my first Letter and that Everybody’s had a chance to read it and think over my points and suggestions...

An open letter to those spokesmen for the New Atheism who have labored mightily these last few years to sweep aside religion’s paralytic webs of superstition and prejudice, and to liberate the rest of our Species via Science and Enlightenment:...

Every once in a while, something you read is so otherwise inexplicable that satire seems the safest bet...

Heavens, it's getting crowded in the pews these days -- at least with Democratic presidential candidates...

Was getting to know Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide doctor, a culturally worthy project? How well did the biopic do in presenting the man and the issues...

The author of The Loser Letters dishes on A. F. Christian, “New Atheism,” and the Facebook generation...

The Loser Letters is a pro-religious satire of atheism, told from the point of view of a worldly and troubled twenty-something girl. It’s an unusual book by most standards...

Western society is increasingly secularised...

For well over a century now, the idea that something about modernity will ultimately cause religion to wither away has been practically axiomatic among modern, sophisticated Westerners...