But his inclusion on the list of “saints,” however informally, at my otherwise extremely traditional Episcopalian church speaks to a wider trend in both religious and secular spaces alike ...

The need for them is buried deep in our collective memory. Medieval hagiographies explained that even vicarious contact with saints, touching the hems of their garments, for instance, improved one ...

Nelson Mandela, contemporary South Africa’s founder, statesman, and secular saint, is only recently buried. Washington and Mandela stand as remarkably parallel figures. They deserve praise and ...

And Niebuhr came close to Jacoby’s position when he reflected that secular saints sometimes put religious ones to shame by slogging for justice without any thought of what was in it for them.

I didn't really know who Joe Paterno was. I concluded that he was the patron saint of Penn State. Saints forgo high salaries and private planes for the common good. Saints seek a heavenly reward.

Even before her death, Ursula K. Le Guin had become one of the literary world’s secular saints. Since her passing, her halo has only grown brighter: In a rhapsodic piece for Literary Hub in 2022 ...

The Vail School District southeast of Tucson approved an agreement with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to build a seminary on the Cienega High School campus. Secular groups argue ...