Read a Sept. 5, 2012 Patheos article about the violence in Burma and the conflict stemmed from the discourse between race and religion.

Read a June 12, 2013 Huffington Post article about the discourse between religion and sexual orientation caused the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to accept homosexual scouts.

The Guardian has a “Race & Religion” track that is updated with news covering topics of race, ethnicity and religion.

Read a March 9, 2007, essay in Commonweal about the legacy of Darwin’s controversial views on race and eugenics.

The U.S. Census Bureau provides a summary page on marital status and living arrangements.

Michael Lackey is an associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris. His research interests include God and religion in literature, and atheism, and he is the author of African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Sociocultural Dynamics of Faith (2007).

Elizabeth S. Anderson is a professor of philosophy and women’s studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She contributed the essay “If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?” to Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life (2007).

Debbie Goddard is director of African Americans for Humanism, a program of the Council for Secular Humanism.

Norm R. Allen Jr. isis a writer, proof-reader, and editor headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y. He was formerly an international outreach coordinator with the Institute for Science and Human Values and editor of a new journal, The Human Prospect: A Neo-Humanist Perspective. He formerly served as the founding executive director of African Americans for Humanism, a program of the […]