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 rant against secular humanism in Andrew D. Bunce's letter of June 25 is lacking fact. The horrors committed by dictatorial regimes under communism and national socialism (Nazi Germany) were not ...

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.

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 ...