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September 2017

September 17, 2017

Never mind the non-believers, feel Scotland's 'spirituality'

The number of Scots who say they are not religious has risen to almost three...

September 16, 2017

Help feed orphans and promote secular humanism in Uganda

The Brighter Brains Institute, a California-based non-profit secular humanist organisation, has launched a funding campaign to...

August 2017

August 12, 2017

Nigerian Humanist Leo Igwe gets top award from IHEU

Nigerian human rights campaigner Leo Igwe, above, has received the 2017 Distinguished Services to Humanism...

June 2017

June 03, 2017

New bookshop addition: Humanism For Inquiring Minds

Veteran freethought activist, Barbara Smoker, celebrated her 94th birthday yesterday – and to coincide with...

May 2017

May 27, 2017

N Ireland couple challenge law over humanist weddings

Model Laura Lacole, 27, and footballer Eunan O’Kane, 26, above – both humanists – have...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Apostates need support. Help rescue them from religion.

HumanistGlobal.org – the new website of the Brighter Brains Institute that launched the world’s first...

April 08, 2017

Ireland's latest census shows a steady decline in godliness

Reacting to Irish census figures that show a drop of just 3.4 percent of people...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

US study shows that children fare better in secular families

For almost 40 years, Vern L Bengtson, above, a USC professor of gerontology and sociology,...

March 06, 2017

Humanists are starting to gain a foothold in the Philippines

The woman pictured giving science lessons to children in a poor part of Alabang close...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Freethinker editor to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award

THE board of G W Foote and Company, publishers of the Freethinker, are delighted to...

February 21, 2017

Humanism book aimed at youngsters blasted by cleric

Free Presbyterian minister Rev David McIlveen, above, is urging people in Northern Ireland to challenge...

January 2017

January 10, 2017

Warren Allen Smith, author of 'Who's Who in Hell', has died

I was sad to learn today that Warren Allen Smith, a veteran US gay rights...

December 2016

December 20, 2016

Rabbi Lionel Blue will present his own obituary tonight

One of the very few individuals remotely capable of uttering anything sensible on BBC Radio...

December 17, 2016

Law that protects non-believers signed by Barack Obama

President Obama has been warmly commended by the American Humanist Association for signing the Frank...

July 2016

July 06, 2016

For a small donation, this atheist classic could be yours

For the past few weeks I have been helping retired Doctor Who screenwriter, novelist, actor...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

In Miami, you will soon be able to get a degree in atheism

Thanks to a generous donation of $2.2 million from retired businessman Louis Appignani, 83, above,...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Coming soon: part one of 'The Cartoon History of Humanism'

When Dale Debakscy, above, made his first contribution to the Freethinker a couple of years...

April 01, 2016

New app launched to block out Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day'

The National Secular Society is today launching a new app that will allow Radio 4...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

UK gay couple have a Ugandan classroom named after them

UGANDAN tabloids are notorious for their lurid anti-gay headlines, such as the one above, but,...

February 2016

February 09, 2016

Atheist numbers soar at Air Force base in Texas

Back in 2013, Lackland Air Force Base in Texas gave non-religious recruits permission to organise...

February 24, 2010

The Meaning of Life 3

Welcome to Part 3 of the Freethinker/Grayling interview. Here, we ask him why religion has...