Erin Manning, in top form, riffing off the thread about the ACLU suing a Louisiana school over its alleged religious discrimination against a Buddhist kid: If this case is as reported, then the ACLU ...

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 ...

Admittedly, definitions suck. They never satisfy everyone and — worse than that — they often bore. But they are unavoidable. So here we go: What does “secular” even mean? The short answer: Secular ...

One of the most important books of the 20th century—it remains a best-seller 59 years after it was first published—is “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. Marx saw man’s primary drive as ...

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 ...

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 ...

How Garry Trudeau and William F. Buckley Bridged Partisan Divides A Hollywood Revenge Sermon The Drama Half-Says a Lot About American Life Audio By Carbonatix The secular religion of Leftism has ...

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 ...

Analysts talk about "secular growth" in stocks and the Dow Jones all the time. They're not really celebrating investing's lack of spirituality. It's all about long-term thinking, and that's a powerful ...

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 ...