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 ...

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.

They were aggressively secular regimes—Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia, and others that treated human ...

Few people realize it, but secular humanism – the progressive crusade to improve life for all – may be the chief driving force of western civilization. Humanism means helping people, and secular means ...

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 ...

Sometimes religion and human rights simply do not get along. Religion often does a better job at mobilizing the masses for social reform, and some believe that it can bring greater legitimacy and ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity) has placed one of the great questions of our time at the center of global debate.

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 ...