A recent federal district court decision holding that Secular Humanist prisoners are entitled to organize a discussion groups focused on their beliefs on the same terms as theistic prisoners is easily ...
How times have changed. During his successful campaign for the presidency in 1912, Woodrow Wilson, Ph.D., the former president of Princeton University, was asked whether he believed in evolution. He ...
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 ...
"We deplore efforts to degrade human intelligence, to seek to explain the world in supernatural terms, and to look outside nature for salvation. We are committed to separation of church and state." - ...
The topic of spirituality is very difficult for most Humanists. Very few of us use that word as it often implies a transcendent soul or religious experience. Humanism is, by definition, a secular ...
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 ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Discussing how humanistic theology continues to target Christianity and its ...
Meet the latest critics of the new atheists: the old humanists. It is not enough, they say, to take a stand against religion—we must stand up something in its place. Humanists are right to think that ...
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 ...
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks about Christian nationalism. Also: A hope for a different kind of president; a ...
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 ...