SELHuG began its campaign to get humanists included on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day in June 2018. The BBC continues to ‘not engage’ by batting all our appeals to their complaints department, who continue to issue fatuous arguments. What are they afraid of? One of our campaigners, Trevor Moore, took the arrival of… Read more »
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Black Humanists win Faith & Belief award
You can see the London Faith & Belief Community Awards live at 7pm on Monday 30 November on Facebook The Association of Black Humanists has learned it is among winners to be honoured at the London Faith & Belief Community Awards 2020 in late November. The group, which SELHuG proudly nominated for the Health &… Read more »
December meeting: Write for Rights
When: Thursday 3rd December 2020, 7.30pmWhere: Online via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96457358403 In November and December every year Amnesty International run a campaign called Write for Rights, encouraging people to write messages of support to people around the world who have suffered injustice and to write appeal letters to figures in authority. Last December we took part in the campaign, the… Read more »
Humanists UK event: The Awakening – Humanism and the Age of Reason
Online event: 27 November, 7.30 – 8.30pm. Join Humanists UK for their first ever fully online event! Wherever you are, join on Zoom for The Awakening: Humanism and the Age of Reason, with historian Charles Freeman and journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed. In recent years, a succession of authors have tried to mount a case for the Christian heritage… Read more »
Review: Humanism in Action Conference
This year the GRAM (Group Representatives Annual Meeting) was cancelled and Humanists UK organised an interesting three day online event, open to all, which we posted about here. Our Secretary Tony Brewer attended some of the sessions and shares his thoughts below. I watched/participated in four of the Zoom sessions: The One Life Course IT… Read more »
