Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s hard to deny, and harder to accept, that reading and writing are in massive decline. But pull back for a wider view and the written word can be seen as a short-term innovation— and our current trend as a return to our oldest medium.
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What is irreligious illiteracy?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Every academic field laments ignorance of its area of study. And so teachers of religion decry religious illiteracy. But did anyone ever think to bemoan irreligious illiteracy? Worldwide, the history of irreligion, non-religion, skepticism, agnosticism, atheism is absent from all curricula—from kindergarten through the Ph.D. It’s likely that most people wend their way through years of […]