Christianity

Vikings. The word evokes ferocious warriors, swords, battleaxes, and bloodthirsty raids. Most of what we know about the Vikings, however, are exaggerations written by people who encountered them. There is a way for us to hear the Vikings speak for themselves:…

Just one day away from the release of his highly anticipated album Jesus Is King, Kanye West will join  Zane Lowe for an exclusive Beats 1 interview later today. Apple Music made the announcement earlier today, revealing that the duo will “cover everything” …

One of my favorite speeches in recent history was delivered by Barack Obama at Notre Dame University ten years ago. In it he warned against the particular kind of self-righteousness for which the Christian Right and some advocates of an equally non-reflective…

Podcast Ep. 292: The Unabashed Atheist Who’s Not Afraid of Hell

Christianity in America is declining at a "rapid pace," according to startling new analysis from The Pew Research Center. The report found that the majority of Americans 65 percent still describe themselves as Christians, though the proportion has significan…

In 2007 and 2014, the Pew Research Center conducted a Religious Landscape Survey, arguably the largest, most comprehensive look at religion in the country. Each of them had more than 35,000 participants who answered questions about their beliefs in detail. T…

I found it: An advertisement for atheism that gets right to the point, courtesy of the Australian comedy show The Gruen: The show also had an advertising pitch for Christianity. But, like religion, it lacks humor. It’s just a boiled down version of Pascal’…

David Bazan formed Pedro The Lion in 1995. Over the next decade, the Seattle band released four albums of contemplative indie rock that explored Bazan’s conflicted relationship with his own Christianity and won him a legion of devoted fans. And then, in 2006,…

Given that this era of Kanye West is marked by slapdash approaches to work, it's easy to see why some folks might be skeptical of West's recent veering into Christianity. However, the pastor that has been sermonizing at West's most recent Sunday Services want…

We are in the midst of the Jewish High Holidays. Next week, Jews around the world will observe Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, with a roughly 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer. Most non-Jews (and maybe even some Jews), however…