The IHEU World Humanist Congress is an opportunity to strengthen the host organisation, the local Humanist movement, to connect organisations together internationally, and to examine a theme in-depth, with workshops and debate, and high profile speakers drawn from across the world.
Read MoreBrian Dunning has entered a guilty plea following charges of wire fraud. Should his criminal record be regarded as relevant to the respect that those who regard him as a spokesperson have, or used to have, for him?
Read MoreThe IHEU recently issued a call to action regarding the persecution of atheist bloggers in Bangladesh. Three have been arrested, and a list of 84 of them have been handed to the government – by Islamist political parties – with a request that they all be arrested.
Read MoreCardinal Napier seemed to be wanting to point out something like this – that paedophiles need to be identified, and treated, rather than being treated as criminals. Because they are not yet criminals.
Read MoreIt’s wrong to impute negative intentions – that’s where the principle of charity comes in. And while an insistence on people setting aside any pre-existing perceptions regarding your motives might be logically coherent, it’s not sufficient in this world of real insults and (at least psychological) harms.
Read MoreThanks to columns and arguments like Dowden’s that it becomes ever clearer that the debate should ideally not be around whether the next Pope should be African or other, but rather around how long the Papacy – and Catholicism in this form – can survive at all.
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