Read this Jan. 22, 2007, essay posted on the blog of the conservative religious journal First Things by a Jesuit priest, the Rev. Edward T. Oakes.

Read a Christianity Today editorial from Jan. 25, 2007, that notes how critical mainstream media reviews have been of many recent books promoting atheism.

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.

Allan Luks is former executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters in New York City and former director of the Institute for the Advancement of Health. He is an author of The Healing Power of Doing Good (Fawcett Columbine, 1992) and coined the phrase “helper’s high” in Psychology Today to describe feelings of well-being reported by individuals […]