Acclaimed actor, comedian, author, and activist Stephen Fry speaks with RNS about why he decided to narrate a new video series for the British Humanist Association and how Humanism informs his ...

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) British humanists hope novelists George Eliot and Virginia Woolf and philosophers Bertrand Russell and A.C. Grayling can help answer life's big questions without religion.

People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction’s explorations put it into conflict with humanism’s tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature ...

It wasn't until I was in my mid-fifties that I realised I was a Humanist - and had unknowingly been a Humanist since my teens, writes Vince Chainey. According to the 2001 census, at least 15.5% of the ...

While so many high-profile atheists today claim that "humanism is not a religion," their whole approach exudes religious sentiment. If you haven't seen it, the British Humanist Association have put ...

But what exactly is humanism, and why is it becoming so popular? At the most basic level, humanists are people who base their interpretation of existence on the evidence of the natural world, and not ...