The most common critique leveled at New Atheists is that we attack only puerile, fundamentalist forms of religion, and never engage with the “best” arguments of the faithful: those adumbrated by ...

How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea" is a tour de force — with a twist. Tracing the history of the ...

The concept of God—a divinity who has control over mortals, knows of the future, lives forever—is hard to grasp. As someone who is getting a master’s degree in Latin and Greek, reading the Iliad and ...

On May 21, we celebrate the Ascension, the day Jesus left the Earth. I think a lot of us would like to have him back. But Jesus did leave and gave us the Spirit. Was that a fair trade?

Abigail Pogrebin’s exploration of a group of rabbis’ conceptions of God is intriguing. Yet it leaves out some of the more transformative approaches, especially those deeply influenced by Eco-Judaism.

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The “God Is Dead” Movement We must recognize that the death of God is a historical event: God has died in our time, in our history, in our existence. The words would seem shocking enough coming from ...

In this day and age, when the State not only supports but actively encourages almost every form of gambling, but actively and actually encourages it — and at the same time purveys the myth that the ...