unbelief

Fifty years later, Catholic Church reckons again with unbelief

By Rosie Dawson — February 18, 2019
LONDON (RNS) — This spring, a half-century after the Vatican's first conference on unbelief, scholars will again gather in Rome to discuss research on the nature of non-religion.

Got faith? ‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ would like to change that

By Kimberly Winston — November 18, 2013
(RNS) “A Manual for Creating Atheists” sold out its first printing before its Nov. 1 release date and ran through a second printing in just two weeks. It also broke into Amazon’s top 100 overall best-seller list.

ANALYSIS: ‘Gravity’ and the unanswered questions of unbelief

By Jeffrey Weiss — October 7, 2013
(RNS) Most of the reviews for "Gravity" don’t mention that the main character represents an increasingly common theme in American religion: The spiritual “none of the above.”

A year after losing faith, atheist pastor finds a new calling

By Kimberly Winston — March 26, 2013
(RNS) When Teresa MacBain declared her loss of faith last Easter, she expected to lose her pulpit and many friends. She did. But in the year since, she's gained a new community and a new sense of confidence.

One woman’s journey out of faith, family and fear

By Kimberly Winston — March 3, 2013
(RNS) A young woman stood outside a Greyhound bus with a ticket in her hand and a backpack over her shoulder. She was guilty of two offenses: rejecting her father's choice of husband and renouncing her family's Islamic faith. Deciding whether to boarding that bus, she said later, would be the hardest thing she had done in her 18 years.

Survey finds record 19 percent of religiously unaffiliated Americans

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — July 20, 2012

(RNS) Unbelief is on the uptick. People who check "None" for their religious affiliation are now nearly one in five Americans (19 percent), the highest ever documented, according to the Pew Center for the People and the Press. By Cathy Lynn Grossman.

Former preacher becomes a poster boy for unbelief

By Bruce Nolan — June 13, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Jerry DeWitt is beginning to develop a national profile in the small universe of organized unbelievers as a former Pentecostal preacher who little by little lost his faith right there in the pulpit. Now DeWitt is out of the pulpit, and public about his nonbelief. By Bruce Nolan.

Blacks say atheists were unseen civil rights heroes

By Kevin Eckstrom — February 22, 2012

Why is Martin Luther King, a Christian, remembered by so many for his contributions to the civil rights movement while A. Philip Randolph, an atheist, is honored by so few? That is a question many black nonbelievers are asking this Black History Month. By Kimberly Winston.

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