The bishop said "we will never submit" to "the culture of death" as the Catholic diocese and religious sisters argue that their faith prevents them from participating in physician-assisted suicide.

During this month, we are being inundated with promotions for the soon-to-be-released movie, The Odyssey. I hope that whatever the merits of this film, it w ...

‘Right-wing governments’ aren’t the reason Egypt and Turkey rejected gay travelers. But many Westerners insist that every foreign vice is caused by colonialism, writes Douglas Murray.

The U.S. Supreme Court finished its term this week and, as expected, delivered rulings on various significant issues. Much media attention has been focused ...

C. S. Lewis, the gifted writer and deeply misguided lay theologian, famously argued that given the statements attributed to Jesus in the New Testament the o ...

A little over a week ago, Pope Leo XIV issued an encyclical addressing various aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). The issuance of the encyclical recei ...

The reaction to what seems to have been an attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump and perhaps other members of his administration has been what one m ...

The tiff between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo was a major news story this past week, besides being grist for the mill of late-night comedy. The story ...

So, the news this week featured headlines about how the Artemis II crew had traveled farther away from the Earth than anyone else in prior lunar missions. A ...

That anti-Semitism continues to be a problem, both in the United States and elsewhere, cannot be disputed. Moreover, there is substantial evidence that more ...

Mike Johnson prides himself on being a “constitutional lawyer” and historian. He is neither. He is a religious ideologue, as shown by the tortuous reasoning ...

Among the historically inaccurate, tasteless events (e.g., the UFC bout on the White House South Lawn) President Donald Trump has planned for the 250th anni ...

The past couple of years have witnessed several intellectuals (or at least self-described intellectuals) turn away from atheism. Although each person who ha ...

Last week, I wrote about the threats to free speech from the Trump administration. This is a serious problem. Democracy depends on our ability to criticize ...

Beginning around the 2010s, persons deemed to be taking objectionable positions—often allegedly racist or sexist positions—were sometimes shunned, targeted ...

Prayer has been in the news recently. Of course, there was the annual spectacle of the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, made even more meretricious ...

Let me get right to the point: Free Inquiry is looking for a new editor, to begin on or about September 1, 2026, although an earlier start might be negotiat ...

What is the scope of religious freedom? For decades now, the religious Right has aggressively pushed an expansive understanding of religious freedom, with t ...

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, it is perhaps fitting that we officially discard the fundamental principle that defined the American ...

Both the end of 2025 and the dawn of 2026 underscored the Trump administration’s vision of America: it’s a militant Christian nation, inspired by the Gospel ...

It’s that time of year when some committed secularists spend time pondering whether or how to observe the upcoming holiday season, especially December 25. F ...

After ten years and two commissions’ worth of study, the Catholic Church has made the revolutionary decision—to do nothing. Specifically, the Church has dec ...

The Thanksgiving holiday has religious roots. There is no denying that. Religious roots that are revealing. The first thanksgiving proclamation on American ...

It’s official. God doesn’t want you to take vaccines. We have this on good authority, namely the solemn assertion of Del Bigtree that “God is an anti-vaxxer ...

Everyone presumably has some dim memory of civics class wherein the genius of the American separation of powers was discussed. Through the U.S. Constitution ...

Sean Feucht, a far-right Christian songwriter/singer and preacher, has claimed during a podcast that he has been working with officials in the Trump adminis ...

Yesterday, I read a review in the Wall Street Journal of Charles Murray’s new book, Taking Religion Seriously—a singularly inapt title if taking religion se ...

My wife and I are off to Spain in a few days, so this will be my last column for a couple weeks. I mention Spain not that you’re especially interested in my ...

Fundamentalist Christians have always been an important part of the MAGA movement. Although perhaps not a majority of Donald Trump voters, they have been hi ...

As should be obvious coming from the editor of a magazine with the name of “Free Inquiry,” I condemn Charlie Kirk’s murder, which appears to have been polit ...

The Messiah—or, if you prefer, the Mahdi—has arrived. Mooresville, Indiana, native Abdullah Hashem is a founder of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. A ...

Last month, CNN interviewed Douglas Wilson, the senior pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. During the interview, Wilson stated that he supported votin ...

Although there are some who claim Jesus was not even an actual person, I believe the more likely reality is that there was a guy from Galilee who attracted ...

A few months ago, I wrote about how the Trump administration was determined to bring about a cultural counter-revolution. In the next issue of Free Inquiry ...

Editor's note: This is the keynote speech Katherine Stewart delivered at the recent Scopes Trial Centennial conference. We publish it here with the gra ...

A recent issue of the New Yorker published a piece about the “pope’s astronomer.” Inevitably, the essay, besides providing some interesting biographical det ...

Editor's note: This is the keynote speech Katherine Stewart delivered at the recent Scopes Trial Centennial conference. We publish it here with the gra ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a self-proclaimed “constitutional attorney and history buff,” has flatly stated that the separation of church and state is a “mi ...

The Trump administration seems determined to gut the scientific research establishment in the United States. Despite the fact that vaccines have likely save ...

The Trump administration seems determined to gut the scientific research establishment in the United States. Despite the fact that vaccines have likely save ...

Hamas is a fundamentalist Islamic group whose charter calls for the establishment of an Islamic state in Palestine. During their control of Gaza, they showe ...

“That winter most of the pulpits of Paris rang with eloquence which skirted close to treason. Fanatical friars and demagogic priests vied with one another i ...

We all know Donald Trump and his band of merry incompetents talk a good game when it comes to crime. They keep reminding us that one of their top priorities ...

The dust jacket for Ross Douthat’s recent book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, boasts that the book “provides an intellectual pathway from doubt ...

The dust jacket for Ross Douthat’s recent book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, boasts that the book “provides an intellectual pathway from doubt ...

As I write this (Wednesday, June 11), the New York legislature has passed a bill that would permit physician assistance in hastening a patient’s death. Whet ...

Anyone who paid attention in their high school civics class knows that a fundamental facet of American democracy is the separation of powers among our three ...