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  • 15 Jul 2011
    The place of religion in public life

    This weekend I am speaking alongside others at a conference on 'The Place of Religion in Public Life', bringing together Humanist, Christian and Muslim contributors to a day of discussion about negoti

  • 20 Jun 2011
    Equality chief under fire for pushing aside the non-religious

    The chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission has been asked to apologise to non-religious people for comments he made in a recent interview.

  • 29 Mar 2011
    Moving from inter-faith to inter-human dialogue

    Questioning the coherence of the newly-initiated World Interfaith Harmony Week, Michael Marten says that if neither 'faith' nor 'religion' really serve as useful comparative or relational concepts, it is perhaps intellectually more honest, and practically more fruitful, to abandon the pretence of ‘interfaith’ dialogue in favour of simple ‘interhuman’ dialogue.

  • 9 Nov 2010
    American humanists take on religious fundamentalism in ad campaign

    Humanists in the USA are launching a national multimedia ad campaign directly challenging fundamentalist Christianity and its misuse of the Bible.

  • 14 Sep 2010
    Secularists clash over responses to Pope's visit

    The Institute of Ideas think-tank has accused fellow secularists of engaging in a "New Atheist witch-hunt" over the Pope's upcoming British visit.

  • 26 Jan 2010
    Humanists appoint new chief executive

    Andrew Copson has been appointed as the new chief executive of the British Humanist Association (BHA), the national charity promoting Humanism and representing the interests of ethically concerned, non-religious people in the UK.

  • 25 Sep 2009
    Rationality and faith need each other, says Williams

    The Archbishop of Canterbury says a purely rationalistic and secularist approach to intellectual and academic life has sold short both the meaning of rationality and the broad human values nurtured by critical faith.

  • 15 May 2008
    'Secular Sunday Schools' to be launched in US

    The Kochhar Humanist Education Center (KHEC), which was launched yesterday by the American Humanist Association, is to develop a curriculum for the humanist equivalent of Sunday schools. This will include programs in ethics geared to serve the children of atheists, agnostics and freethinkers.

  • 22 Apr 2008
    Learning the many faces of humanism

    Humanism is a philosophy and approach to life that has Christian, atheist, deist and theist roots, says Mark Vernon. So when it is taught in schools, what kind of approach will be adopted?

  • 14 Mar 2008
    Religion and Society research programme

    A major five year research programme on faith and society is underway, and has a valuable new website.