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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

‘Learn then that I, I alone, am God, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them. … With vengeance I will repay my foes and requite those ...

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 ...

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 ...

Danielle Schacter never thought she would become an un-Christian. "I slowly became more and more disgusted by the way I saw people treating others," says the 32-year-old, who was raised Baptist. "I ...