“Atheists’ Collection Plate, With Religious Inspiration”
Read an April 2, 2010, New York Times story about the Foundation Beyond Belief, founded by Dale McGowan to collect and disburse atheists’ charitable donations.
Read an April 2, 2010, New York Times story about the Foundation Beyond Belief, founded by Dale McGowan to collect and disburse atheists’ charitable donations.
In 2009, the White House put together a task force on abortion reduction proposals, an effort that stirred mixed reactions at the time, as this Wall Street Journal story recounts.
Americans are conflicted about the morality of abortion, but a majority say it should be legal in all or most cases, according to a survey conducted in April and May 2011 by the Public Religion Research Institute.
Read a June 10, 2010, essay about apatheism, posted by ReligionDispatches.org.
Read a June 23, 2010, Religion News Service story about a University of Toronto study comparing anxiety levels of believers and nonbelievers. The story is posted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Efforts by some abortion opponents to pass so-called “personhood amendments” have all failed and the strategy appears to have diminished as an effective weapon. These amendments are aimed at effectively ending legalized abortion by making destruction of an embryo at any stage and for any reason illegal. Even some allies of the anti-abortion movement say they are […]
With attendance down in mainline Protestant churches and older ministers delaying retirement, many recent seminary graduates are finding that pastoral jobs are scarce, according to a Religion News Service story published Sept. 30, 2006, by The Washington Post.
Read a March 17, 2006, New York Times story about how fewer seminary students are interested in leading churches. It’s posted by Netscape.
Read a Jan. 4, 2013, New York Times story, “Pregnancy Centers Gain Influence in Anti-Abortion Arena.”