David G. Myers

My thanks to Wendell Karsen for so thoughtfully and substantively engaging the "dialogue and discernment" process encouraged by our shared denomination, the Reformed Church in America. It is in that ever-Reforming spirit that Letha Scanzoni and I have offered our brief contribution to the free marketplace of ideas, and welcome others' ideas as well. We wrote our book hoping to bridge the great divide between traditionalists, who feel passionately about the need to support and renew marriage, and progressives, who…

When I first read the Dawkins/Harris/Hitchens "new atheist" argument--that all religions are "dangerous" (as well as false)--I thought: these guys are ill-informed. To counter their stories of religion's horrors we have stories of religion's heroes--from the anti-slavery movement's leaders to the founders of universities, hospitals, and hospices. Moreover, we now have massive new social science data showing religion's associations with human happiness, health, and helpfulness. And thus was born the impulse to pen A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists:…