Read a column by Peter Hitchens, who is a devout Anglican and apologist for Christianity. Hitchens remembers his brother Christopher and reflects on how their views on faith — and other matters — divided and united them.

The Center for Inquiry held a vigil outside Christopher Hitchens’ Washington, D.C., home on Friday, December 16, 2011, the day after Hitchens’ death.

Read a tribute for Christopher Hitchens from the American Humanist Association.

Read a Jan. 23, 2012, post at the Religion Clause blog that counts six separate bills pending in state legislatures that promote teaching creationism or intelligent design in schools.

Read a Jan. 31, 2012, Religion News Service story about the efforts of state governments to remove evolution from school curriculum.

Read a Feb. 23, 2011, Patheos.com blog post on the spirituality and secularization of marriage.

Kenneth Taylor is a philosophy professor at Stanford University and co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program Philosophy Talk, which has tackled a number of issues involving religion and belief/nonbelief. His essay “Without the Net of Providence: Atheism and the Human Adventure” is included in Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life (2007).

Bruce Phillips is a professor of Jewish communal service at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, a leading seminary of the Reform movement. He was on the team that completed the National Jewish Population Survey 2000 and says the Jewish institutional landscape will be reshaped by children of intermarriage who do not belong […]

William Lobdell is a former Los Angeles Times reporter and the author of Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America — and Found Unexpected Peace (2009). He is now editor of iBusiness Reporting and is a visiting faculty member at the University of California, Irvine.