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Spirituality is a word that makes some humanists uncomfortable; they think spirituality is the preserve of religion, but we disagree, and we're not alone. Lindsay de Wal is the first humanist to lead an NHS Chaplaincy team, and as she said, "A lot of people don’t have an organised faith, but they still have spiritual …
The whole point of having a membership organisation is let you share your views, so every three months, we invite you to suggest what we talk about. If you’ve got an idea you'd like to discuss, please let us know. Just click on the contact link, and drop us a line.
As we say on our home page, rituals are are the product of human thought, culture, and practice. They're the ways in which we create meaning, and they change over time. We know that Humanist rituals - especially funerals and weddings - are already popular in the UK but elsewhere, especially in the USA, humanists …
Humanists in Scotland campaigned for more than twenty years to give couples the freedom to say in their own words why they want to get married, and they're still doing that in England & Wales. That freedom of expression was hard-won, and it lies at the heart of our approach. We never forget that this …
The whole point of having a membership organisation is let you share your views, so every three months, we invite you to suggest what we talk about. If you’ve got an idea you'd like to discuss, please let us know. Just click on the contact link, and drop us a line.
Our beliefs are fundamental to how we understand and interact with the world. They can be conscious or unconscious, and range from simple factual claims to complex philosophical or religious ideas. Humanism isn't a religion; humanists believe we're responsible for our own lives and actions, and for creating meaning and purpose in the world. But …
As celebrants, we know that people really don't like the G word. We don’t like talking about grief because it’s painful, and because we will do anything to avoid pain, our instinct is to run away from it, but here’s the thing: if we do that, if we run away from grief - we will …
The whole point of having a membership organisation is let you share your views, so every three months, we invite you to suggest what we talk about. If you’ve got an idea you'd like to discuss, please let us know. Just click on the contact link, and drop us a line.
It's a good question, and one that we should think hard about in this time when all the most important humanist values are under attack from authoritarians all around the world; freedom of belief, freedom of expression, the rule of law, and universal human rights – the very same values that underpin liberal democracy. But …