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The Seven Benefits of a Relationship Between an Atheist and a Believer
My friend Dale McGowan, who has already written two incredibly popular books on raising children as an atheist parent — Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers — has just published his latest...
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In Georgia, an Atheist and a Christian Stage a Public Dialogue at a Local Bar
Justin Mullinix, an atheist from Georgia, recently volunteered to sit down with Will Dyer, a local pastor, in front of a large crowd at a bar and answer questions from the audience. It wasn’t a debate....
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A Christian’s Plea to Get Her Community to Stand Up for Atheists
Rebecca Florence Miller, one of the evangelical Christian bloggers on Patheos, recently got in a conversation with a bunch of atheists (on this site, I believe), and came away with a few important...
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Christian Conference Organizers Asked Me to Share My Views on Gay Marriage…...
A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from the organizers of the NINES, an online-only conference for evangelical Christians. (People would presumably purchase the live-stream and watch it with their...
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What Can Religious People Do to Help Atheists?
The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses what religious people can do to help atheists.A rough transcript of the video can be found on the YouTube page in the “About” section.We’d...
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Atheists and Believers Respond to Westboro Baptist Church with Unity,...
On their way to Hollywood to peddle their drug of addiction, hate, outside the Academy Awards Sunday night, half a dozen members of the Westboro Baptist Church paid a morning visit to my home town 35...
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TV Show Searching for Atheist/Religious Couples Who May Be Getting Married Soon…
I’m passing along this information to those who are interested. I take no responsibility for how this will go, but I’m told it’s for a “major cable network.”Are you an engaged or soon to be engaged...
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I Was a Guest Speaker at a Church Last Sunday
In May of 2013, Kile Jones launched a nation-wide project called Interview an Atheist at Church Day where he matched atheists and preachers for video-recorded conversations in their churches. I had...
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I Gave a Sermon at a Church About My Atheist “Spirituality”
From my work on the local interfaith council in my home town, I’m familiar with several clergy from a wide variety of churches, and so a senior member of the Unitarian Universalist Church who knows me...
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How is Your Atheist/Christian Relationship Going?
An interesting thread appeared on Ask Reddit yesterday. Christians who date atheists (and vice versa) were asked about their situations: How did they meet? How’s it going? Etc.Some of the highlights:I...
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Texas Pastor Holds Public Dialogue with Atheist Couple to Counter Stereotypes...
Credit where it’s due: Pastor Doug Kriz of Grace Christian Church in McKinney, Texas wanted his congregation to get to know atheists in their community. Not to preach to them — not yet, anyway — but to...
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Freethinker Group Holds “Ask an Atheist” Panel Discussion
On the evening of November 21st, the Antelope Valley Freethinkers (AVF) in Lancaster, California held an open panel of five atheists to answer anyone’s questions about atheism, agnosticism, Humanism,...
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Catholic Bishop: We Must Stand Up for Persecuted Atheists All Over the World
Well, I'll be damned.Bishop Declan Lang, the chair of the UK-based Catholic Bishops’ Conference Department for International Affairs, has gone on record asking fellow Catholics to defend persecuted...
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Christian Wife Asks For Prayers For Her Newly Atheist Husband. Can This...
When Redditor LolHSV got married, he and his wife were both about "56 percent religious," he says. Since then, his religiosity has sunk to the point where he now considers himself an atheist. Hers, in...
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After Iowa Synagogue Gets Vandalized, Local Atheists Assist in Clean-Up Efforts
Earlier this week, in Waterloo, Iowa, a synagogue was vandalized. The criminals had spray-painted the phrase "Jesus Saves" along with two crosses on the building. While it may not seem too horrible, as...
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Atheist Laments Silence from Interfaith Groups on LGBT Discrimination
Dr. James Croft is the leader of a Humanist congregation and does plenty of interfaith work. Both of those things are contentious to various degrees even among atheists, but he does an excellent job in...
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Bishop John Shelby Spong’s Takedown of Religious Nonsense
At the American Humanist Association's conference last month in Chicago, attendees kept telling me that the speech given by Bishop John Shelby Spong was the highlight of the event. Spong is a retired...
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The Value of Crossing the “Difference Divide” Between People in Different Tribes
For those of you who have followed this website since it's inception, you may be interested in seeing this TEDx talk by my one-time "soul-buyer" Jim Henderson. He's a Christian who has always had the...
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What Do Religious People Want To Know About Atheists?
There are several questions on this Reddit thread worth skipping, but some of them led to great responses.
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Reza Aslan and Jessica Jackley Describe How They Make Their Interfaith...
In a recent TEDx talk, Reza Aslan and Jessica Jackley discussed how marriages between people of different religious beliefs (including atheists) are happening more often, how and why they can work, and...
View ArticleListen to This Story of a Bone Marrow Transplant with Theological Implications
An atheist saved a Christian's life via a bone marrow transplant.But then she had to decide whether she wanted to help him tell his story and bring people to Jesus.
View ArticleAtheists and Progressive Christians Must Work Together to Fight Evangelicals
Both groups want to prevent evangelical Christians from enshrining their beliefs in our law.
View ArticleAtheists and Christians Joined Forces to Help the Homeless in Texas
Our beliefs about God should never outweigh the common cause of helping those who are less fortunate.
View ArticleI’ll Be Discussing Religion with a Christian Apologist in Portland on Aug. 31
If you're near Portland, Oregon later this month, come to this free event!
View ArticleHere’s Video of My Conversation with a Christian Apologist
As Sean McDowell said, there was "vigorous disagreement, but charitable engagement."
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