Curated

American Atheists, one of the leading organizations dedicated to defending nonbelief, is taking a quieter approach as it prepares for its first in-person convention in three years.

Alabama lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that would criminalize gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth, with a threat of 10 years in prison for medical providers.

Every other weekend, Scott Stanley, founder of the Arizona Yagé Assembly, facilitates sacred ceremonies where congregants share ayahuasca, a plant-based psychedelic they say “has the capacity to heal the entire human being.”

In the wake of last year’s round of deadly fighting in Gaza, a group of prominent rabbis in the New York area came to believe that a major American Jewish charity had indirectly fueled the violence.

The atrocities are shocking. Ukrainian authorities have said 410 civilians were killed in the suburbs of Kyiv, discovered after the Russian army withdrew from its positions. At least two were found with their hands bound; several were shot in the head.

A Boston couple says they have purchased a building in the city to create a Holocaust museum.

While Pope Francis was presiding over a ceremony at the Vatican to consecrate Ukraine and Russia on March 25, a group of high-ranking American bishops met in Chicago.

A 17-year-old refugee took a stroll down a main thoroughfare after escaping the shelling in his hometown of Zhtomyr, Ukraine. In a casual walk through an older part of the city, the rumble of a double-length bus over a bridge,…

Barbara Schock-Werner, the former master builder of Cologne Cathedral, can still  remember her dismay when she heard Notre Dame de Paris had caught fire: “I sat in front of the television and watched the cathedral burn, completely terrified.”

When the people of Dayton, Tennessee, welcomed the world’s attention to their community for the 1925 Scopes trial, municipal leaders printed an informational brochure on whose cover was the question: “Why Dayton of all places?” Their answer was not that their town…

At Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s recent confirmation hearings, Senator John Cornyn pointed out a persistent problem in secular liberalism. Sometimes, religious freedom comes into conflict with other constitutional rights.

Russia today is a quasi-religious fascist state claiming legitimacy from the support it receives from a morally compromised Orthodox Church. That is the sense of the phrase, “clero-fascist (or clerical-fascist) state” employed by Father Leonid Kishkovsky, ecumenical officer of the…