The latest in the popular series of BHA 'Christmas' cards was announced last week, and I for one think they're a great way for humanists to take part in all the festive celebrations going on this winter... with a bit of a wink and a nod. When we … [Continue reading]
Death is something I think about a lot. For any serviceperson or family member of a serviceperson, it is impossible not to. We are currently leaving a decade long period where friends, colleagues, brothers, sisters, mums, and dads have been … [Continue reading]
About a month ago, and this is unusual, I found myself stunned into silence by a lay preacher. Don't get me wrong, the silence was short-lived. But, for a brief moment, I was dumbfounded. At the time, I was curious to know how a person of faith … [Continue reading]
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell writes about the story of his journey to Humanism. This article was originally published in Humanism Ireland under the title 'My Journey from superstition to rationalism.' Organised religion is the … [Continue reading]
Where does one find meaning when they have lost their faith? That is a question that has been posed to me on numerous times as someone who was once a fully signed up member of an evangelical church who now lives within a non-religious, humanist … [Continue reading]
Cutting Edge Consortium founder Maria Exall writes about the impact of faith-based homophobia on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in this country and around the world. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of faith, … [Continue reading]
Tony Akkermans shares a short excerpt from his book, Happily Godless. Once upon a time there was, in the Western world at least, but a single god. Closely defined with clear-cut attributes. Omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent. … [Continue reading]
Hiram Crespo writes for HumanistLife about the philosophy of Epicureanism, and argues that is has made a resurgence in modern works of positive psychology. As the annals of history have it, in the sixth century Emperor Justinian had all the … [Continue reading]
The British Humanist Association is once again fundraising for the salary of its Faith Schools Campaigner, Richy Thompson, at JustGiving.com/nofaithschools. We very much want Richy to continue his work in 2015 and keep making real headway in the … [Continue reading]
Sean Spain responds to a recent article on HumanistLife with a novel solution to the 'is-ought' problem. I recently read an article by George Keeling, mounting a defence for humanist morality. The crux of the argument is that morality is the … [Continue reading]