Faith + Reason = Truth

Staring at me from a corner of my study was a Wired Magazine from 2 years ago.  The cover story was on the "New Atheists" movement being led by a group of intellectually arrogant and condescending writers, scientists, academics, and others (so now you know where I stand, in a nutshell, as if you didn't already!), and the atheistic author's internal battle with how best to express his own views in the face of a religious public.  I had saved it all that time, waiting for the proper mindset and time to engage.  Today at lunch was that time.
Gary Wolf penned the piece, and with his efforts has vaulted himself to the top of my list of Favorite Declared Atheists.  It may be a short list, but that's alright.  Yes, he educated the reader in matters both atheistic and religious, but it is the manner in which he grappled with the subject that captured me.  Until the very last paragraph, although I was aware of where he stood regarding his beliefs, I could not have foreseen where he eventually landed in his personal struggle with the most effective manner in which to exercise his freedom of (non-)religious expression.  Above all, he has shown himself to be cut from an objective, intellectually curious, and honest investigative cloth that I can only dream will one day cover the journalistic landscape of America and the world and become its rule rather than its exception.