In short, a secular education understands people as part of the natural world, whereas a sectarian religious education envisions people, or at least God's chosen or favored people, as participants in God's divine plan for humanity.

Now, the Republican Party is dogmatically anti-abortion. It was not always so.

Why certain self-identified Christians are so obsessed with whether other people have a penis or a vagina remains a mystery.

If you think that being anti-LGBTQ is inherently hateful, as I do, then you will consider Focus on the Family a hateful group.

Despite his bogus claims and hyperventilations, Goble was not breaking any law by deadnaming and misgendering Titone. He was being a complete jerk, but that's a different issue.

One might be tempted to think that these conservative Christians' animosity toward transgender people is rooted less in theology than in unquestioned traditions, irreligious dogmas, and political expedience.

Eight percent of Coloradans now identify as atheists, double the figure from just a decade ago, according to the recently released Pew Religious Landscape Study. Another ten percent identify as agnostic, and a total of forty percent say they’re religiously unaffiliated.