When you believe strongly in an idea, how do you shepherd it into being? As senior editor Trent Gilliss explains, sometimes it takes years of perseverance and framing.
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“Every single thing that religion provides, rationality, empiricism, and science can provide. And not only that — they can provide it better.” ~Dr. Lawrence Krauss
The physicist and atheist talks with Krista Tippett about what science may reveal about the origins of life and human consciousness.
The Senior Religion Editor for the Huffington Post reflects on the death of author and journalist Christopher Hitchens.
Read highlights of Krista's interview with Alain de Botton, and experience his philosophy in Twitter-form.
Martin Marty highlights "one of the best short criticisms yet of the old/new or new/old atheism" by Jackson Lears, "whose critics describe him as a 'man of the left' in a 'magazine of the left.'"
Robert Sapolsky asserts that humans have one trait that best defines and distinguishes us from other species: the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in our head, and yet continue on in the face of it.
Watch Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers sing a special song, since they say atheists don’t have any.
Watch Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers sing a special song, since they say atheists don’t have any.
His answer to the audience question, “Is religion potentially dangerous?” is one that’s often asked in the context of the seemingly intractable conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.


