(RNS) — Religiously unaffiliated Americans represent about 28% of the country’s population, according to 2024 Pew Research Center data. As this demographic has grown, so, too, have the number of ...

Vanessa Gomez Brake, senior associate dean of religious life, grew up Catholic and still attends mass, but has embraced humanism. (Daniel Park) Vanessa Gomez Brake knew she was an atheist from the age ...

Jason Callahan spends much of his days at the bedsides of people nearing the end of life. A chaplain in the palliative care unit of a hospital cancer center, Callahan supports patients and their loved ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday he is overhauling the military’s chaplain corps, which provide religious and spiritual support to members of the armed forces and their families, saying he ...

Adolescents often find themselves being pulled in two opposing directions: one toward belonging to a group and the other toward establishing a unique sense of self. In addition to academics, finding ...

Is technology a religion, a godlike system promising salvation and threatening of damnation? Yes, says Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, in his ...

Many audience members at the Humanist Hub’s Harvard Humanist of the Year Award celebration could not hold back tears as Amy Fairchild finished performing the song she wrote after visiting her brother ...

In his 20 years serving as Harvard’s humanist chaplain, Greg Epstein has been in conversation with students, faculty, and fellow clergy about everything from morality to community to the future of ...