A religious discrimination case at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln has been settled. The case involved a woman, identified as Jane Doe, who claimed she was dismissed from her job as a youth program director after the university learned that she...

I am pleased to reprint Phil Zuckerman's essay, The Virtues of Godlessness, which appeared earlier this year in The Chronicle of Higher Ed. It offers an application of William James's (among others) effort to judge religion by its effects. In many...

Allegations of religious bias have been raised in the decision to not renew the contract of University of Central Missouri president Aaron Podolefsky. Among other things, the story involves a combination of small-town politics and apparent concern by...

Psychiatric Times has an article discussing the American Psychological Association study summarizing research on sexual orientation "conversion" therapy. The APA report received much discussion among Division 36 members at the Toronto meeting. The...

A new group examining non-religion and secularity is launching their organization's first conference next month at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. A friend an sometimes collaborator of mine, Ryan Cragun at the University of Tampa, is joining...