The case of Richard Dawkins: cultural affiliation with a religious community...
image credit: Karl Withakay. image used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Every couple of years, whenever he declares that he is a ‘cultural Christian’,...
View Article‘Nature is super enough, thank you very much!’: interview with Frank Turner
Credit: ben morse Introduction Frank Turner is an English singer and songwriter whose music I have loved for years. His songs are wild and varied, sometimes sad and sometimes happy but always somehow...
View ArticleAgainst the ‘New Theism’
Note: this is a very slightly revised version of a piece originally written for my personal Substack and published on 7 February of this year. Fiolent, Crimea, Black Sea. Cape Fiolent is home to St....
View ArticleRushdie’s victory
image credit: elena ternovaja. image used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. ‘What you have made will long endure.’ This is how Salman Rushdie signed off one of...
View ArticleCan the ‘New Theists’ save the West?
Jordan Peterson, ‘the Richard dawkins of new theism’, making an address to delegates at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, 2023. Vladimir Putin is one of the last defenders of Christian...
View ArticleWhite Christian Nationalism is rising in America. Separation of church and...
the us bill of rights as proposed in 1789. in this version, what would become the first amendment (which separates church and state) is listed as ‘article the third’. A judge citing the Bible and...
View ArticleKeir Starmer must bring the UK’s diverse but divided people together
A week on from the election of a new government, Megan Manson of the National Secular Society (NSS) reflects on what a Labour government might mean for secularism in the UK and the worrying trend of...
View ArticleDonald Trump, political violence, and the future of America
image: Evan Vucci. details and non-free use rationale per wikimedia commons.Donald Trump was nearly killed a couple of days ago, and the consequences of this failed assassination attempt will...
View ArticleAn upcoming secularist conference on the safeguarding of liberal values in a...
Stephen Evans highlights the myriad threats to secular liberalism and sets out what’s needed to preserve it ahead of the National Secular Society’s upcoming conference on protecting liberal values, at...
View Article‘Project 2025 is about accelerating the demise of a functioning democracy’:...
IntroductionJared Huffman is the Democratic representative for California’s 2nd congressional district and the only open non-believer in the US Congress. He is also at the forefront of the fight...
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