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 ...

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 ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Paul Kurtz, a leading U.S. philosopher who devoted his life to fighting prejudice against people who reject belief in a god and promoting a non-religious stance in life, has died at ...

Michael Miner unwittingly threw down the gauntlet in his March 5 [Hot Type] column on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. A writer in the New York Times had identified “a battle between secular ...

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.

The first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV addresses an issue that is not exclusively, or perhaps even primarily, theological. Magnifica Humanitas presents a vision of humanity inspired by divine Revelation ...

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 ...

While I agree with the sentiment expressed in the Feb. 7 letter by Charles Kunce (" 'Bickering' is actually healthy debate"), healthy debates have merit and meaning only when both sides are making ...

The antiGod worldview of secular humanism began when Satan uttered those fateful words Did God really say Because there is nothing new under the sun the Bible has ...