((RNS) — Candles are integral to many traditions, from Catholic Mass to Jewish Shabbat celebrations to Buddhist meditation. At Tufts University near Boston, candles are also an uncommon tool of ...

Near the start of her account of humanism, Sarah Bakewell draws an important distinction. Anti-humanists, she writes, despise the material world and seek either to escape it using religion or remake ...

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A humanist wedding celebrant from Belfast has called on authorities in Dublin to allow celebrants from the north to be able to legally marry couples across the border. Humanist weddings are ...

Responding favorably to a February letter from the ACLU, the Department of Defense this week ended more than two years of stonewalling over a request from U.S. Army Major Ray Bradley to amend the ...