New stats reveal: only legalising humanist marriages will give same-sex couples a meaningful choice of type of marriage ...

Mar 20, 2017 by

from BHA: The Office of National Statistics has published new statistics on the number of marriages, both same- and opposite-sex, which occurred in England and Wales in 2014, the first year that same-sex marriages were legally recognised....

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Calls grow to legalise humanist ceremonies in Britain

Dec 8, 2016 by

by Becky Johnson, Sky News: Humanist ceremonies in Scotland are legally recognised and there are now calls for the rest of Britain to follow suit. Almost a third of people in Britain have attended a humanist ceremony. The new finding from...

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Humanism: Beliefs and Agenda

Nov 21, 2016 by

[Editor’s note: An important teaching resource from the Barnabas Fund.] Fifty-three years ago, Harry Blamires wrote in The Christian Mind (London, SPCK, 1963) that Christians no longer thought in a Christian way. Not only had society in...

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The New Civic Religion – A Christian Study Guide to Humanism

Aug 11, 2016 by

The New Civic Religion – A Christian Study Guide to Humanism: Book review in the Church of England Newspaper, 11 August. The recent upsurge in religiously inspired violence in western countries raises the question of the resources western...

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Private religious school failed by Ofsted for teaching young earth creationism as science

Apr 22, 2016 by

from British Humanist Association: In news that could have wide implications for the teaching of creationism in private schools, an independent religious school in London has been criticised by Ofsted for having a policy which ‘promotes...

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