God

Salon God, He's moody

In an interview with something to offend everyone, Robert Wright explains why religion has given us a fickle deity
By Steve Paulson Jun 24, 2009

  • Goldman Sachs and "God's work"

    CEO Lloyd Blankfein defends the Goldman business model -- and warns that if his bank goes down, so does everybody
    By Andrew Leonard November 9, 2009

  • The contemplative life calls, but I'm married

    How does a spouse pursue a spiritual quest?
    By Cary Tennis May 8, 2009

  • Jane Goodall's animal planet

    In a surprising interview, the famous primatologist talks about her mystical experiences in the jungle and her ever-increasing passion for animal rights and cleaning up the "horrendous mess" of our environment.
    By Steve Paulson April 14, 2009

  • Jesus is just alright with him

    To the author of "Jesus Interrupted," the man from Galilee was a radical Jewish prophet, not God. But in an interview, Bart Ehrman says history doesn't have to undermine Christian faith.
    By Gary Kamiya April 3, 2009

  • Hiking the Appalachian Trail with Ayn Rand

    Mark Sanford's thoughts on the author of "Atlas Shrugged" are worth hearing. But why bring God into it?
    By Andrew Leonard October 28, 2009

  • You are not your brain

    We have become too reductive in understanding ourselves, argues philosopher Alva Noe. Our thoughts and desires are shaped by more than neurons firing inside our heads.
    By Gordy Slack March 25, 2009

  • God enough

    We should see the ceaseless creativity of nature as sacred, argues biologist Stuart Kauffman, despite what Richard Dawkins might say.
    By Steve Paulson November 19, 2008

  • What's wrong with science as religion

    Piercing a Communion wafer with a nail and throwing it in the garbage, as one crusading biologist recently did, does science no favors.
    By Karl Giberson July 31, 2008

  • Religion is poetry

    The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
    By Steve Paulson July 21, 2008

  • Can't Darwin and God get along?

    Of course they can, argues physicist and theologian Karl Giberson, if only many believers were more sophisticated and atheists less dogmatic.
    By Vincent Rossmeier July 1, 2008

  • "God talked to me today"

    I was an agnostic who never took my family to church. And then, my son starting hearing the voice of God.
    By Ann Bauer March 22, 2008

  • My childhood dreams are shattering as I approach adulthood

    I used to believe in fantastic things of the imagination; now they all seem to be dead.
    By Cary Tennis March 21, 2008

  • Thinking weaselish thoughts at Eastertide

    Holy Week is a good time to ask: Do we really believe or do we just like to hang out with nice people and listen to organ music?
    By Garrison Keillor March 19, 2008

  • The cold price of hot blood

    A devastating new book reveals that Iraq will cost the U.S. at least $3 trillion. Will Americans check their pocketbooks the next time a president tries to sell them on a cheap, glorious war?
    By Gary Kamiya March 4, 2008

  • Away in an awesome manger

    The Nativity story is a cornerstone of the Christian faith but can be a big hurdle for a bunch of skeptical New York teenagers.
    By Garrison Keillor December 5, 2007

  • Should I come out as an atheist?

    I've been lying to my family, my friends and my religious university -- I don't believe in God! I don't! I don't!
    By Cary Tennis October 25, 2007

  • What the Republican Revolution has wrought

    It's the I Got Mine You Get Your Own party, marching under a Christian banner.
    By Garrison Keillor October 24, 2007

  • No visible panty lines

    A faith-based organization named Pure Fashion pushes clothing that will help teenage girls "maintain their dignity as children of God."
    By Catherine Price August 21, 2007

  • Is atheism dead?

    My belief in no God, which has sustained me since high school, is starting to feel shaky.
    By Cary Tennis July 12, 2007

  • God grief

    Christopher Hitchens has attacked modern-day saints like Mother Teresa and Princess Di, but his new book takes aim at the most sacred cow of all: The Almighty.
    By Giles Harvey May 10, 2007

  • Christopher Hitchens, Al Sharpton and God

    The two firebrands meet to debate religion, the idea of God and Hitchens' new book.
    By Alex Koppelman May 8, 2007

  • Something to believe in

    For years, I struggled to connect to my father's God. But this Easter I'm reminding myself that Jesus himself was a doubter.
    By Darcey Steinke April 7, 2007

  • The joys of life without God

    Skeptics Society founder Michael Shermer explains why Darwin matters, how believing in God is the same as believing in astrology, and why it doesn't take divine faith to experience something bigger than ourselves.
    By Kevin Berger August 23, 2006

  • The disbeliever

    Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith," on why religious moderates are worse than fundamentalists, 9/11 led us into a deranged holy war, and believers should be treated like alien-abduction kooks.
    By Steve Paulson July 7, 2006
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