Onkar Ghate on Religion in America

POST by The Editors | View All Posts January 13, 2015

If you missed it when it went up on YouTube, be sure to catch Steve Simpson’s interview with ARI senior fellow Onkar Ghate on religion in America.

Science And Industrialization

Bananas are an atheist’s nightmare? (#GMOMonday)

POST by Amanda Maxham | View All Posts July 08, 2013

Some years ago, walking on a college campus, I had a small pamphlet shoved into my hand. It advertised itself as the “atheist test” and featured a banana on the cover. As my parents and many years of schooling can attest, I am not one to pass up an exam. I opened it up and started reading.

Culture And Society

Rescuing spirituality from religion

POST by Keith Lockitch | View All Posts September 17, 2009

The Wall Street Journal recently commissioned Karen Armstrong, author of numerous books on religion, and Richard Dawkins, author of numerous books on evolution and atheism, to answer the question: “Where does evolution leave God?” What I found most interesting about the exchange was an issue that neither discussed explicitly, but which lurked just beneath the surface of their answers: the fact that religion has co-opted the entire realm of the spiritual.