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 ...
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 ...
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.
Sociologist Phil Zuckerman starts off his eye-opening but blinkered look at contemporary American secularism with Jill, a 40-something stay-at-home mom who has turned her San Francisco home into a God ...
In last week’s column, I briefly mentioned “The Break” that occurred sometime during the course of the First World War. By break, as coined by British poet David Jones, it’s meant a bold line of ...
A few months ago, a group called Humanists International updated their "defining statement of World Humanism." Though they explicitly state that the statement "is not a creed," it is -- and it serves ...
Sky News host James Macpherson says secular humanism does not answer the “human need for meaning” amid an unexpected rise in Christianity among the Australian population. “It tells us that secular ...
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 ...
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 ...