Kimberly Winston
Kimberly Winston is a freelance religion reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
All Stories by Kimberly Winston
Atheist TV: Coming soon to a television near you
By Kimberly Winston — May 7, 2014
STANFORD, Calif. (RNS) American Atheists plans to launch the first-ever atheism-only television channel in July.
New ‘Openly Secular’ group seeks to combat anti-atheist discrimination
By Kimberly Winston — May 2, 2014
(RNS) A new coalition is gathering stories of discrimination from nonbelievers in an attempt to make that kind of bias unacceptable.
Losing my religion: Clergy who no longer believe gather online
By Kimberly Winston — April 24, 2014
(RNS) A new "Rational Doubt" blog hopes to help those who feel isolated by doubt in a sea of believers, pairing clergy who have lost their faith and left the pulpit with those struggling with leaving religion.
New Jersey lawsuit seeks to ban Pledge of Allegiance
By Kimberly Winston — April 21, 2014
(RNS) The suit against the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in New Jersey schools continues a new legal strategy.
New book exhorts atheists to ‘come out’ of the closet
By Kimberly Winston — April 17, 2014
(RNS) A new book exhorts atheists to "come out of the closet," another sign that the nonbelief community is taking a page from the LGBT community in gaining acceptance.
Can you question the Resurrection and still be a Christian?
By Kimberly Winston — April 16, 2014
(RNS) Many Christians struggle with how to understand the Resurrection -- as something literal or metaphorical. How literally must one take the Gospel story of Jesus’ return to be called a Christian?
Is the Internet bad for religion?
By Kimberly Winston — April 10, 2014
(RNS) A new paper links a rise in Internet use to a decline in religious affiliation.
Secular Coalition flunks most members of Congress on church-state report card
By Kimberly Winston — April 1, 2014
(RNS) More than half of lawmakers received F's on church-state issues in a report card issued by the Secular Coalition of America.
Atheist Nate Phelps on his father: I mourn ‘the man he could have been’
By Kimberly Winston — March 21, 2014
(RNS) “My father was a man of action,” activist Nate Phelps said after his father's death, “and I implore us all to embrace that small portion of his faulty legacy by doing the same.”
Fred Phelps dies, America tweets
By Kimberly Winston — March 20, 2014
(RNS) Fred Phelps' death lit up the Twitterverse. Here is a selection of tweets to mark the passing of perhaps the most hated pastor in America.
Calif. city torn by multiple fights over public crosses
By Kimberly Winston — March 11, 2014
(RNS) “They said they have to take that (cross) down,” local resident Doug Johnson told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. “But they didn’t say anything about putting another one up.”
Study: Protestant work ethic isn’t just Protestant anymore
By Kimberly Winston — March 7, 2014
(RNS) Two economists found that the “measure of total Christian adherents is robustly and positively correlated with states’ unproductive entrepreneurship scores” in a given state.
Carl Sagan: ‘The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be’
By Kimberly Winston — March 5, 2014
(RNS) “There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any,” Carl Sagan said.
As Fox-TV re-creates ‘Cosmos’ series, Carl Sagan’s following grows
By Kimberly Winston — March 5, 2014
(RNS) Many atheists, agnostics and humanists credit Carl Sagan and his “Cosmos” TV series with instilling in them skepticism of the supernatural and a sense of wonder about the universe. Both, they say, encouraged their rejection of institutional religion.
Student reverses course on secular club, citing threats
By Kimberly Winston — February 28, 2014
(RNS) A North Carolina high school student who sought to establish a school club for nonbelievers has reversed course after what she and her family have described as harassment and threats.
