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Gordon Gamm, a lawyer and longtime humanist activist (among other positions, he has served on the board of directors of the American Humanist Association), approached Free Inquiry last year about the possibility of asking an historian to write an essay addressing the connections between the Enli ...

Spoiler alert: We’ll probably never really know what happened on Easter.

Social scientists don’t use the word secular like we do—just one of the revelations in this far-ranging cover feature.

For Immediate Release: March 25, 2022 Contact: Paul Fidalgo, Communications Director press@centerforinquiry.org - (207) 358-9785.

We seem to be poised on the threshold of a bright new era in which nonreligious Americans will be properly studied by the social sciences. What better time to review what we know about the various flavors of religious nonaffiliation and nonbelief? And what better time to review the facts and fal ...

By any measure, the period since the mid-twentieth century has been a golden age for both the science of sociology and the discipline (or business) of opinion polling. Never before have so many Americans been surveyed, measured, and compared on so many indices and by so many specialists. Still, ...

Was there a historical Jesus of Nazareth? Or is he best understood as, pardon the expression, a mything person?

In the April/May 2013 issue, FREE INQUIRY invited readers to submit autobiographical essays describing the life-stance odysseys that had led them to their present positions of secular humanism or atheism.

Opening a discussion of the problem of evil as a proof for God’s nonexistence.

Humans created “God," not the other way around. Better that we take that lesson before we finish wrecking the planet.