Hemant Mehta
After Edwina Rogers’ ouster, secular community regroups
By Kimberly Winston — June 10, 2014
(RNS) The departure of a high-ranking lobbyist after an embezzlement scandal has the secular community in disarray before its biggest event of the year.
Seventh-day Adventist pastor plans to flirt with atheism for 12 months
By Kimberly Winston — January 3, 2014
(RNS) California pastor Ryan Bell is flirting with atheism for 12 months. His unorthodox resolution is only an experiment, he says. He is not an atheist. “At least not yet."
In season of giving, atheist groups’ charity rebuffed
By Kimberly Winston — December 19, 2013
(RNS) As the holiday season peaks, atheist and humanist groups around the country have seen their charitable impulses rebuffed by both Christian and secular organizations.
UPDATED: Atheists step in to help Ohio pastor assaulted by ‘militant atheist’
By Kimberly Winston — October 25, 2013
(RNS) "This shouldn’t have happened," says atheist blogger Hemant Mehta. "We disagree with Christians all the time but that is not how we resolve our debate.”
Teen activist emerges as an atheist hero at Skepticon
By Kellie Moore — November 13, 2012
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (RNS) In her hometown of Cranston, R.I., Jessica Ahlquist earned quite a reputation: Witch. Nazi. Satanist. But in the atheist community, the 17-year-old is a celebrity. A hero. By Kellie Kotraba.
God is back in the party platform, but religion remains a divisive issue for Democrats
By Lauren Markoe — September 6, 2012
(RNS) God was out and now God is in. And Jerusalem wasn’t the capital of Israel and now it is. By Lauren Markoe.
Under pressure, Democrats restore `God’ to party platform
By Lauren Markoe — September 5, 2012
(RNS) The GOP blasted the Democrats for initially removing references to "God" from their national party platform, and for failing to endorse Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. By Lauren Markoe.
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