Atheism

What does it mean that a quarter of all Americans “describe their religion as ’ nothing in particular’ ”? In her newest book, The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Seekers, Believers and Those in…

This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage of the intersection of religion and science—those too-familiar stories in which religion and science are…

In the spirit of the annual evangelical Christian push to “Keep the Christ in Christmas,” the United Church of Bacon (UCB) placed a holiday themed billboard in Las Vegas, Nevada featuring two strips…

A Q&A with S. Brent Plate

Imagine, for a moment, if, during the tense final hours of the recently concluded negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 world powers, Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister…

You have questions, big questions. Ask the Dust has answers. From the serious to the sacrilegious, no question is too high or too low! • • • • • • dust@religiondispatches.org • • • • • • Dear Dust, I…

It takes chutzpah to argue that most living humans navigate reality incorrectly. But this particular form of chutzpah has become familiar.

It is a mild Kenyan day. With temperatures in the 70s, I smile with some Lutheran guilt because I know I am missing the worst of Minnesota’s frosty brunt of the so-called “polar vortex” (climate change in action). At this moment, instead of curling up with blankets…

A Good Friday post-mortem, as it were.

In a recent post from RD’s religion and science portal, The Cubit, Andrew Aghapour casts doubt on some conclusions drawn from the research of Rice University’s Elaine Howard Ecklund indicating that…