Religion has framed and shaped much of human culture. The belief that there are supernatural forces or powerful deities pervading nature, or the proposition that a supreme Creator God rules the ...

That’s it — the criteria for Jesus’ Big Four for Final Judgment for individuals and nations. Jesus does not say anything about which God to worship or how. Here, Jesus is a secular humanist. It’s all ...

The invention of the telescope was more important than that of the steam engine, the transistor, the internet, or artificial intelligence. The telescope changed humankind’s understanding of the world.

Because it can be difficult to define one’s worldview, I want to explore a particular term: non-denominational. In any context when you don’t know the exact terminology, it’s tricky figuring out how ...

In May of 2018, Counterpunch.org was kind enough to publish my essay, “A Call to Secular Humanist Resistance.” That piece was very popular on social media. It even received a “like” and re-tweet from ...

(RNS) — Tom Flynn, former executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism and editor of Free Inquiry magazine, has died. He was 66. Flynn’s death was announced Monday (Aug. 23) by the Center ...

But as historian Leigh Eric Schmidt shows in his lively tour through the expansionist heyday of the secular creed, the longed-for golden age never really got off the ground. The initial cohort of ...

Liza Libes is a writer and college counselor in New York City. I grew up in a deeply secular household. My parents, expats from the Soviet Union, were always taught that religion has no place in a ...

Re “How to Replace Christian Nationalism,” by David Brooks (column, Nov. 15): Mr. Brooks’s essay is heartfelt and hopeful, yet there is a subtle irony in it. He eschews putting people into ...

Religion has framed and shaped much of human culture. The belief that there are supernatural forces or powerful deities pervading nature, or the proposition that a supreme Creator God rules the ...

It is a modern conceit that if we do not identify the unprovable first principles in our life, we have no religion. Religion, says this conceit, is something that others have. We have truth. All of us ...