I have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my -- or any -- religion doesn't make sense, I don't accept it. That's why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first five ...

We live in a world where conversations about religion and secularity often paint an oversimplified picture. You've probably ...

Two new surveys were recently published, both showing the same thing: Religious people were more likely to be suspicious and unwelcoming of people who are different, while secular people were more ...

Is secularism on the brink? Of collapse? Of wild success? Or, more modestly, of at least starting an essential conversation? A crucial aspect of any secular renaissance, he argues in his book and ...

There are very few things conservatives, liberals and leftists agree on. But if they are irreligious, they all agree that religious Americans are more irrational than irreligious Americans. It is a ...

Religious affinity has different flavors, with culture and tradition being an important reason behind people undertaking religious practices. On average, Pew Research Center’s survey deduced that 54% ...

You perhaps recall Napoleon’s question to Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, the French polymath, about why there was no mention of God in Laplace’s work on celestial mechanics. The French ...

Reading Bill Keller’s recent Sunday New York Times piece, “Asking Candidates Tough Questions about Faith,” I felt I had been transported back a billion years to American journalism’s Secularithic Era ...

One of the most damaging confusions in Israel’s current public debate is the assumption that religious moral seriousness and secular ethical reasoning belong to opposing worlds. Religion is often ...

Religious belief and practice are fading at an accelerating pace. The United States was long the great exception to the sociological generalization that secularization was an inevitable by-product of ...