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 ...

Robert Green's June 20 letter, “Moral people turn away from religion,” illustrates the intellectual bankruptcy that characterizes secular humanism. He asserts that “there are secular guides to ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...