When you hear about a “secular” person, what comes to mind? A non-religious person? An atheist? An agnostic? The truth is, the meaning of secular has evolved over the past 200 years, said Joseph ...

Analytical philosophy is thought by some to threaten only orthodox Christian belief. Indeed, if the new secular Christian were to have his way, he would have us believe that he alone and not the ...

The Sutra of the Secular Lamp [Buddhism] | Yamato no Kai, Mitsuhiro NakatsuI had an AI create an explanation for the sutra I wrote last time, which teaches the importance of conventional truth.

The awe of being and thinking about this supremely beautiful, absurd joke we call a universe is all the “meaning” I need to live the long and joyful ticks of time. Until my senior year in high school ...

After climbing for decades, the percentage of Americans with no religion has leveled off. For the past few years, the share of adults who identify as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular" has ...

In a famous passage in his 1919 lecture on “Science as a Vocation,” Max Weber explores the meaning of death in modernity. He contrasts the lives of people in traditional, agrarian societies, ...

Increasingly, societies in Western Europe and North America are described as post-secular. However, what this means is not at all clear and is therefore somewhat controversial. It is also unclear what ...

Are secular practices diluting the meaning of holidays? For nonreligious Americans, Easter symbols include eggs and bunnies, but the meaning of the holiday brings with it the same spirit; spending ...