In a culture navigating its way through the fraught fields of race and gender and class and power and privilege, Streep has gone out of her way, in her capacity as an artist and as a proximate ...

In times of philosophical/cultural/political/racial/ethnic/gender — you name it — discord and division like we experience today, it is more important than ever to ...

Why do we think of such figures as Erasmus as humanists? One reason is because they stood up for the right of individuals to decide for themselves what to think rather than being told what to think by ...

Though the term is rarely employed in our time, “Christian humanism” is one of the noblest movements of the last century. It’s a concept much older than the 20th century, of course, dating back to St.

(The Conversation) — Regularly topping lists for ‘greatest song of all time,’ the former Beatle’s classic 1971 song is taken by many as an atheistic anthem. (The Conversation) — Fifty years ago, John ...

The World Humanist Conference in Oxford at the weekend struck me as a completely religious gathering, even though it is predicated on atheism. If it hadn’t been for the words of the sermons, we might ...

Pope Francis has said it is “useless” to seek solutions to ills and problems in the Church through “conservatism and fundamentalism” and warned against a faith that is “locked in subjectivism” in a ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons will recognize humanism as a religion, after reaching a settlement in a lawsuit filed by an inmate. Last year, the American Humanist Assn. sued the prison on behalf of a ...

Philosophical naturalism assumes that everything can be explained by natural law. In its accounts of the human, God is expendable, as is all other mystery. Not only is this view of things mistaken, ...