Education: a humanist perspective
(Note: RE Today has been publishing a series of article on the concept of education from different religious and philosophical…
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Doing good is not the preserve of the religious
This week’s question on The Guardian’s Comment is Free Belief section is ‘Do Believers make Better Citizens?’ This is what…
Christians and the Riots
I wrote a letter to The Sunday Telegraph last week about this letter which they published from a group of…
The EHRC’s stance on religious rights undermines its credibility
The totally false narrative of Christians being persecuted has gained a surprising new advocate in the form of Trevor Phillips,…
BHA Conference 2011
Just back from the BHA Conference in Manchester, the first in a decade. We had some great speakers including Peter…
Church-run state schools have reached the end of their term
The growth in faith schools in the last decade or so presents a grim prospect for future social injustice. Let’s stop…
Classical Inspiration
Natalie Haynes’ excellent Voltaire Lecture for the BHA yesterday on how the ancient world can tell teach us about ourselves…
Shelley’s ‘The Necessity of Atheism’ 200 years on
The 200th anniversary of Shelley’s ‘The Necessity of Atheism’, perhaps the first atheist pamphlet in England and the cause of…