For a theist there’s nothing quite like watching an atheist get an intellectual walloping from a preacher. There’s just something apocalyptic about it, and it most easily occurs when the atheist tries ...

After reading the essays by former atheists recounting their journeys to Christianity and Catholicism in From Atheism to Catholicism, I was struck by the intellectual rigor many of these converts ...

Skepticism is a way station on the way to a higher, more fulfilling kind of spirituality, he says No doubt faith is in crisis. But this applies, as is painfully shown in the CNN documentary on ...

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God. American faith ...

Is atheism simply an idea, or is it a worldview like the religions that it is supposed to replace? On the one hand, atheists typically make a claim about the world—that there is no God—and many of ...

Not all atheists are created equal. Some raise sincere questions; others simply attack. Learn how to respond to both effectively. Sébastien Norblin, “St. Paul in Athens,” 1844 (photo: Public Domain) ...

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For most of human history, religion served as far more than a personal belief system. It shaped laws, influenced governments, guided moral codes, explained natural phenomena, and provided a framework ...

Phyllis Tickle, who was the founding editor of the religion department of Publishers Weekly, is the author, most recently, of "Emergence Christianity: What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters ...