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In an interview with Bruce Ledewitz on his forthcoming Hallowed Secularism, the law professor tells RD that the so-called New Atheists want to lead secularists, many of whom know very little about religion, into opposition to religion. But for secularism to be healthy, he says, it must learn from the wisdom of the religious traditions.

William D. Hart’s new book charts the black spiritual imagination through the journeys of Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis.

Free Arabs describes its work as “a unique combination of investigative journalism, trendy reporting, arty activism and impertinent satire”—all enshrined in the site’s slogan: “Democracy, Secularism, Fun.”

A newspaper in Knoxville prints the text of the letter written by the man who opened fire last year in a Knoxville church. Sobering and disturbing.

Buried in the typical bile on the comment board of my last column is an interesting thread about the nature of identity…

Sure we are supposed to pray for our enemies, but for some Christians, Democrats are the enemy you dare not pray for, the party you dare not join. And the prejudice goes both ways.

The faith of Jason Collins, who recently came out as the first gay athlete in a major American sport, doesn’t fit the model of culture war conflicts the media expects and the religious right demands of its spokespeople.

While it’s good that Obama won’t have this rotten apple in his administration it does nothing about the tree.

Intellectual and philosophical encouragement for America’s largest and most invisible minority: atheists, agnostics, secularists, and the undecided.

House Republicans need to choose their battles wisely; so far wisdom has not entered into the equation.