Read a Feb 22, 2007, Associated Press profile (posted at the San Diego Union Tribune) of Annie Laurie Gaylor, head of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which leads in challenging government policies on religious issues.

Read a March 15, 2007, Los Angeles Times op-ed by Sam Harris in which he argues that moderate believers give merit to religious fanatics.

Read this review of Dawkins’ The God Delusion  by Alvin Plantinga in the March/April 2007 Books & Culture.

This article by Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian examines whether atheism is being used as a rouse to promote Islamophobia and militarism in the US.

This March 24, 2013, piece in Salon is excerpted from The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal and discusses the growing divide between religious and non-religious people.

Listen to a CNN Radio story from March 28, 2013, about the 50th anniversary of the American Atheists.

William Hurlbut is a physician and professor of human biology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., whose training in medical ethics and theology informs his work on the biological basis of moral awareness, and the integration of theology and philosophy of biology. He edited  Becoming Human: Evolutionary Origins of Spiritual, Religious and Moral Awareness. […]

Thomas Jay Oord is professor of theology and philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, and works with the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love. He wrote Science of Love: The Wisdom of Well-Being (Templeton Press, 2004).

Samuel Oliner is emeritus professor of sociology and director of the Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif. Oliner co-founded the institute in 1982 to study altruism and seek ways to enhance altruism and prosocial behavior in society. A native of Poland, Oliner was rescued by a non-Jewish family at age […]