World Humanist Congress speaker and "His Dark Materials" author Philip Pullman talks with RNS about atheism, Humanist funerals, and what atheists can learn from Jesus.

In this RD10Q, writer Tom Krattenmaker makes the case for a religion-free Jesus. What inspired you to write Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower? It’s more like who inspired me to write the book ...

Jesus Christ: Son of God, or only an influential historical figure? That's the question Drew Sokol — a Christian pastor — and Cory Markum — an atheist writer — will attempt to tackle in ...

Odder still, that observation leads to a Jesus in whom even atheists can believe. Obviously, Carroll isn’t suggesting that Jews convert and accept Jesus’s physical resurrection.

For atheists, Christmas is a religious sham. For if God does not exist, then obviously Jesus’ birth cannot represent the incarnation of God in human history, which Christians celebrate at this ...

The home for a six-foot-statue known as Big Mountain Jesus rests with a three-judge appeals panel after a lawyer representing a group of atheists asked for it to be removed from U.S. Forest ...

ROME - Lawyers for a small-town parish priest have been ordered to appear in court next week after the Roman Catholic cleric was accused of unlawfully asserting what many people take for granted ...

The debate between religion and atheism is far from confined to western culture. Yet in broad brush terms, the concept of religion which atheists attack and the atheism they promote are deeply ...