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 ...

(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 ...

Robert Green's June 20 letter, “Moral people turn away from religion,” illustrates the intellectual bankruptcy that characterizes secular humanism. He asserts that “there are secular guides to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Secular humanism is individualism free from controls of religious beliefs, traditional morals, even government. This thought is pervasive wisdom among today’s liberals and progressives. Forget persons ...

Rabbi Jack Silver will speak on ”Secular Humanist Jewish Life Cycle Celebrations: Preserving Traditions While Being True to Ourselves” on Aug. 9. The program will take place from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at 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 ...