The Friendly Atheist was started by Hemant Mehta, author of I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith Through an Atheist’s Eyes (2007). Mehta and several others contribute to it.

The Free Thinking blog is hosted by the Center for Inquiry.

Minister-turned-atheist John Loftus’ blog is called Debunking Christianity.

Atheist Nexus is an online community exclusively for nontheists. Nearly 20,000 people have joined the site; find ones in your area by using the search function on the members page. Contact through the website.

Read an April 26, 2009, New York Times story, “More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops.”

Read an April 26, 2009, Boston Globe story about the growth in academic research on secularism.

Read an Oct. 19, 2009, NPR story about the schism beween atheists and “new atheists.”

Read a Nov. 14, 2009, New York Times article about research into whether religious behavior is an evolved instinct.

Read a Dec. 4, 2009, essay by evolutionary psychologist and biologist Marc D. Hauser, “It seems biology (not religion) equals morality.”