Turns out, my congregants need to hear what I believe
As an Army program tries to improve service members’ mental—and spiritual—well-being, nonbelievers see a chance to address bias
A roundtable discussion with Jewish atheists about observing religious traditions, maintaining cultural attachments, and even praying—without a belief in God
As an atheist, I needed to find my own way to observe Jewish rituals when my father died
How I learned that righteousness and morality are a question of behavior, not belief
Taking on the New Atheists, Scott Shay’s new book sparks a conversation about the existence of God
A Pew poll suggests that Jews spark high feelings of ‘warmth’ among—and compared to—other religious groups
Al Seckel has left the country. But the world’s greatest collector of optical illusions left some troubles behind.
A Jewish education helped him get over his childhood obsession with Jesus. Then he made up his own mind about what he believed.
In Lahore a Facebook group dedicated to atheists and agnostics serves a silent minority in the world’s other religious nation-state
The activist behind those anti-Christmas billboards says Judaism is incompatible with the views of nonbelievers—like himself
Another holiday season, another billboard showdown
In a congregation that didn’t focus on God, I discovered the value of reciting prayers I don’t believe
Jacques Berlinerblau’s book How To be Secular makes a historical case for a strong church-state division
In a new memoir, Herb Silverman recounts his legal battle against a state ban on atheists seeking public office
The Christian right, radical Islamists, and secular leftists agree: this atheist is America’s most dangerous man
After a lifelong curiosity about the prohibition against pork, one writer finds a satisfying answer—in the writings of the late Christopher Hitchens
At a preschool Hanukkah celebration—held in a nice liberal church—an atheistic Jew wonders where he fits in, and what to tell his daughter
