If you want to know what life without religious liberty looks like, look no further than Virginia in […]
Nearly everyone knows that Thomas Jefferson coined the phrase “wall of separation between church and state,” but far […]
Here’s a dark meditation to begin your day: imagine that everything you experience upon waking is an illusion. […]
A remarkable fact about humanity is that virtually every culture that has ever existed has worshiped one or […]
Between the years of 1609 and 1611, Galileo Galilei made more paradigm-shifting observations than perhaps any scientist in […]
On a cold February morning in 1600, a man—stripped naked, tongue clamped—was led into the Campo de’ Fiori […]
It’s ironic that the Roman emperor Julian (331 – 363 CE) would later be given the epithet “apostate” […]
The deep and critical reading of scripture marks the beginning of the end for Christian credibility. Biblical criticism, […]
If you want to get to the bottom of any historical event or movement, you have to get […]
“The universe,” wrote astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, “is under no obligation to make sense to you,” and, for […]