Many are familiar with the concept of “secular Jews,” people who choose to identify as Jewish despite being non-practicing, agnostic, or even atheist, because they see Judaism as a culture or ...

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 ...

The percentage of “nones” -- people not affiliated or involved with any organized faith -- continues to grow in the U.S. Writer Katherine Ozment is one of them, and was faced with 2 questions: What do ...

Does the world still have the same meaning and sense of sacredness in a secular world? I found the answer to this question beautifully argued and described in the book All Shining Things: Reading the ...

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More than half a century ago Dietrich Bonhoeffer spoke of a coming "postreligious" era. In his 1965 landmark bestseller, The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox embraced secularization as a healthy ...

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 ...

So, if the need for meaning is the greatest of all human needs and that which supplied meaning no longer does, what are millions of Westerners supposed to do? The answer is obvious: Find meaning ...