As religiously unaffiliated people become a larger and larger portion of the US population, scholars are noticing a rise in ...

But not all forms of church are on the decline – including “secular congregations,” or what many call “atheist churches.” As a sociologist of religion who has spent the past 10 years ...

And it goes without saying that there exists no equivalent of an atheist “church” that could sanction what Hicks did. Though I’ve never introduced myself as an anti-theist or much bothered ...

which has no real desire for the truth per se but which merely wants to use the tools of “reason” as a stick with which to beat the Church. This ignoble atheism is poisoned by its primary ...

(JTA) — Who is Jonathan Rauch, a gay Jewish atheist, to write a book about how ... evangelicals especially have embraced a “Church of Fear” that is not only toxic to the body politic ...

Shared testimonies, collective singing, silent meditation and baptism rituals – these are all activities you might find at a Christian church service on a Sunday morning in the United States. But what ...