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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I recently came across the phrase “Death is not the end.” It wasn’t a reference to the Christian promise of resurrection, but a tagline for zombie movies—those stories of supernaturally reanimated ...

"The DowJones could use some of Google's secular growth," said Alex Dumortier in a recent Fool article. Bank of America analyst Ken Hoexter slapped a buy rating on J.B. Hunt Transport to celebrate the ...