Thomas J. Brown

On a shopping trip with his wife and kids, a man attempts to defuse a heated situation involving a Christian woman overreacting to an unfortunate shopping clerk's innocent holiday remark. This fictitious story is told in the style of "The Night Before Christmas."

Nontheism has seen a tidal wave of growth in the past decade, due in large part to the Internet. The ability for nontheists to find one another, share ideas, and form communities—both online and in the real world—has been a boon for us.

Citizens in Spokane have been waiting decades for a full-scale science center, and the opening of the 26,000 square foot Mobius Science Center in the city’s core heralds the end of a long and bumpy road.

"Truth is real; God is imaginary."
That's the message that can be read on one of seven billboards recently erected in Spokane by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).

It depends on the government, but assuming we're talking about the U.S. government, then the answer is unequivocally no.

I had written a whole big response full of links to evidence and reasons why global warming is, in fact, real. And then I threw it all away.

This question is timely for me, as I recently watched the 2010 documentary Let's Talk About Sex, which, "takes a revealing look at how American attitudes towards adolescent sexuality affect today’s teenagers." The film examines how American society's attitudes toward sex–and specifically sex education–are hurting our young adults.