Adam Gopnik is one of my very favorite essayists, but when he turns to religion, I must turn my head. As with me and economic theory, Gopnik simply doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. I’d been waiting ...

Attacks on religious belief have recently come on two fronts: a political front and an intellectual front. It brings to mind a New York Times piece in which author David Barash concludes that religion ...

Theologian John Sanders lost his college teaching job recently because of his endorsement of “open theism”—the view that the future is not determined by God. His ouster from Huntington College in ...

Skeptical theism seeks to defend theism against the problem of evil by invoking putatively reasonable skepticism concerning human epistemic limitations in order to establish that we have no ...

After escaping an ouster a year ago by the Evangelical Theological Society, a leading proponent of “open theism” theology is being shown the door by trustees at Huntington (Indiana) College for his ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Atheism and anti-theism so often occur together within the same individual that the coterie of ...

The evidential argument from evil seeks to show that suffering is strong evidence against theism. The core idea of the evidential argument is that we know of innocent beings suffering for no apparent ...

If atheists were identifiable as a group in the way that gender, race, or ethnicity-based groups are identifiable, they would have a case to demand protection. In the United States of America and ...

Outrage over the murder of three young Muslim Americans in North Carolina last week has gone international. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation said Saturday that the killings reflected ...

Presidential campaigns inflate expectations that power wielded from government’s pinnacle will invigorate the nation. Thus campaigns demonstrate that creationists threaten the creative ferment that ...