A career arguing about faith has made religious disagreement easier to understand—but outright atheism more unfathomable.

Such revivals are not unprecedented. After the French Revolution and its ensuing de-Christianization, the country experienced ...

The Religious ‘Nones’ are now the largest religious cohort in the U.S. (28%). They are more prevalent among American adults ...

Atheists and agnostics are hoping to have greater say in Texas legislation, which is becoming increasingly influenced by ...

Plenty of people who fit the definition of an atheist don’t self-identify as such, instead preferring less fraught terms such as agnostic, humanist or freethinker, he added. Then there are the ...

Martin Amis: I wouldn't call myself an atheist anymore. An agnostic is the only respectable position, simply because our ignorance of the universe is so vast that [atheism] would be premature.

Students, hungry to hear more, lined up after class to talk with him. When he visited Brandeis, Stedman was one of a growing number of atheist and agnostic university chaplains. This number has ...