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I don’t think the New Atheist critique of religion was wrong or unnecessary or mean-spirited,...

The next time an atheist celebrity is accused of sexually predatory behavior, we'll have a...

If you won’t stand up for the things you believe when it comes to the...

The downfall of Lawrence Krauss, and how atheists have rejected the unfounded claims of religion...

When secular groups give a platform to the worst people, it makes all atheists look...

The crude and bigoted behavior of high-profile atheists is real, but it's not the whole...

If we're just replicating the tribal behavior we decry when religious believers engage in it,...

It's hard to build secular communities and harder to keep them running, but the work...

This election was an ugly demonstration of how many racists and bigots there still are...

I wish I didn't have to write posts like this, but they're still sadly necessary.

A perfect illustration of the atheist community's one-step-forward, one-step-back pattern.

We deserve better than yet another bunch of celebrity white guys declaring themselves our leaders.

My latest column is up on AlterNet, 4 Things the Atheist Movement Has Done Badly...

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of...

My latest column on the Guardian is up: "We atheists can use growing clout to...

It's Secular Students Week, when we old folk interview the next generation of secular activists...

In August 2013, almost two years ago, I wrote about a discouraging story in which...

My latest column on the Guardian is up: "Finally, atheists are no longer just old...

I was pleased to read about a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute...

My latest column on the Guardian is up: "It's time for atheists to stop debating...

This article was previously published on AlterNet. In the last thirty years, atheism and secularism...

On a night earlier this summer, a humid blue twilight in July, I stepped out...

It had to be said. My newest column on the Guardian is titled "Richard Dawkins...

The allegations against one of our Big Names that have been simmering in the atheist...

This is big news: Richard Dawkins has apologized for "Dear Muslima", the infamous remarks he...

Well, this is most welcome news: [W]e have to be able to manage disagreement ethically,...

[Author's Note: I'm reposting some old favorites while I'm away on vacation this week. This...

I've been writing about atheism for some years now, and one of my great joys...

I was at Women in Secularism 3 this last weekend, a fantastic and nearly flawless...

We've known for a while that there's an ugly strain of aggressive anti-feminism within the...