A staggering 21 percent of those surveyed said they don’t practice a “formal religion” — up from the 15 percent who said that in 2008, accor...

One in five Americans is religiously unaffiliated. Yet just one of 535 members of the new Congress is. MORE

Atheism surges as Brits stop saving a prayer for a higher power. MORE

The Joplin School District has suspended a middle school Bible study that had come under fire from a national organization -- but only becau...

NASHVILLE - A bill filed Wednesday in the House would require all state license plates to carry the phrase "In God We Trust." MO...

"The amount of dark matter in the era of hydrogen formation and today will be different," said researcher Dmitry Gorbunov. MORE

Norwegian journalist Even Gran spent a year in the U.S. not too long ago and he used the opportunity to dive into our nation's proble...

This rhetoric is obviously extreme, but it's also not new. MORE

Thousands of atheists turned out Saturday on a muggy Washington day to take part in "Reason Rally," dedicated to boosting the poli...

Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention declined by more than 200,000 from 2014 to 2015, down to 15.3 million members. MORE See al...

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad signed a proclamation in April encouraging "all Iowans" to participate in a statewide Bible-reading m...

A conservative Christian non-profit, Focus on the Family works to promote right-wing values in public policy, including gay conversion, inte...

Pennsylvania church accused of using 'mob boss approach' to pressure lawmakers who support bill giving victims of abuse more time to...

Brewster County (Texas) Sheriff Ronny Dodson is one of the many, many government officials to put "In God We Trust" stickers on al...

This was anti-atheist prejudice, plain and simple. MORE

Police officers shouldn't be in the business of converting the very people they're trying to help. Churches may not see a difference...

The successful technology demonstration paves the way for detecting mergers of supermassive black holes with future space-based observatorie...

Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-siz...

One macromolecule to rule them all, from Ebola to Zika and the flu. MORE

If you've seen any news headline on Bangladesh in Western media over the past 15 months, odds are strong the headline included the phras...

Washington, DC - On June 2-3, more than three hundred nonreligious Americans will march to Capitol Hill. Hosted by the Secular Coalition for...

The organization has a new advertising campaign on Metro trains, Bikeshare bikes, PTRC commuter buses, and garages that say "I'm an...

Why have women stopped going to church? It isn’t because they're too busy or too well educated. Maybe they stopped going when conservati...

With an increasing number of Americans leaving religion behind, the University of Miami received a donation in late April from a wealthy ath...

A new Indiana law is part of a wave of legislation that requires burial or cremation following abortions. What's behind it? MORE

The audit, released on Friday, showed that 838 people came forward from July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015, to say they had been sexually a...

GOP Congressman Led Weekly Meeting Quoting Anti-Gay Bible Passages – No Apologies From Any Republican. MORE

The candidates received endorsements from the Freethought Equality Fund last month after coming out publicly as non-religious. MORE

Teaching document is a mix of standard material and creationist claims. MORE

Saying that the answer to longer life is church attendance falls far outside the scope of this study's findings, and it's not an hon...

Proportion of population who identify as having no religion rose from 25% in 2011 to 48.5% in 2014, surveys show. MORE

An ongoing spate of recent studies - looking at various countries around the world - all show the same thing: religion is in decline. From S...

Thousands of atheists and their allies are expected to converge on Washington, D.C., next month for a "Reason Rally." The first Re...

The paper published by Columbia University is signed by a coalition of 15 prominent legal scholars across the country. MORE

"No matter how isolated, how afraid, and no matter how alone you may feel today, note this -- the Department of Justice and indeed the ...

"I think we got off the track when we allowed our government to become a secular government," DeLay explained. "When we stopp...

Americans Growing-Up Without Religion Tend To Be Less Authoritarian And More Compassionate Here's What Being Good Without God Actually...

Earlier today, Lisa Pedersen was presented with the FREETHOUGHT ACTION HERO AWARD at the 7th Annual Orange County Freethought Alliance Co...

Call it resistance with love. A massive gathering of atheists taking place in Washington, D.C., will now face some concerted counterpointing...

You may recall the NC statewide "One Nation Indivisible" billboard campaign FreeThought Action organized over the 4th of July ho...

A consortium of leaders from within the community of reason endorsed the idea of a National Day of Reason. This observance is held in parall...

Missouri 'Religious Freedom' Bill Defeated In House Committee Vote Ted Cruz Under Fire Over Adviser Who Wants Abortion Providers T...