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 ...

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 ...

DENVER, CO, U.S.A., April 11, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Jefferson Humanists and Secular Hub, chapters of the American Humanist Association, are pleased to welcome ...

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 ...

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 ...

As humanism has tried to define itself over the years, one of the biggest challenges has been to develop an “elevator pitch” – a quick explanation that effectively explains humanism to the uninitiated ...

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 ...

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 ...