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The “Yes in God’s Backyard” movement to build affordable housing on faith organizations’ properties is gaining steam in California and elsewhere.

Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.

His Bible sales pitch comes as he appears to be confronting a significant financial squeeze, with his legal fees growing while he fights a number of criminal cases and lawsuits.

The philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s commitment to free thought and reason is sorely needed in our time of demagogues and dogma.

I am only a mathematical tourist, but my experience has led me to believe that mathematics is rife with intimations of a divine presence.

Some progressive Jews are embracing “diasporism” — reimagining their faith as one that blesses their lives in America and elsewhere.