The New Atheists gave blasphemy a bad name. But strong criticism of religion is still necessary, because many false religious dogmas have terrible real-world effects.

Get thee behind me, Casper ter Kuile & Co.

Suffering may be a fact of life, but we can choose how we relate to the people experiencing it.

Our favorite Christianity correspondent, Dan Walden, on the meaning of Christmas.

Well, he wasn’t a libertarian. Dan Walden talks Lawrence Reed’s new book, and the many modernities of Jesus.

On Eugene McCarraher’s “The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity,” a fascinating study of the ways in which capitalism, despite its purported scientific rationality, is really a perverse kind of religion.

The rhetoric of damnation has been lost. But how else can we adequately condemn injustice?