(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 ...

Few people realize it, but secular humanism – the progressive crusade to improve life for all – may be the chief driving force of western civilization. Humanism means helping people, and secular means ...

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.

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 ...

Like tectonic plates colliding, humanism and the humanities are confronting movements that question long-held definitions of ...

The Varieties of Religious Therapy (VRT) is a blog series featuring representatives from twelve belief systems discussing how they integrate faith with their approach to psychotherapy. This ...