When it comes to not making optimistic, pie-in-the-sky pronouncements about American secularism I have almost unparalleled street cred. For years I have rued and bemoaned and lamented the fate of this poor mangled -ism. But in the past few months there have been some positive and unexpected developments both here and abroad as well.
MORE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/is-secularism-making-a-comeback/2013/02/19/c8160b10-7a93-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_blog.html
See also...
The new American Jewish secularism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/the-new-american-jewish-secularism/2013/02/19/23cfa7a8-7aae-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_blog.html?wprss=rss_on-faith