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Why do we exist? A humanist celebrant’s viewpoint
By Kate Domaille Kate Domaille is a part-time university lecturer specialising in British and European Cinema. She is also a Humanists...

Kate Domaille
Sep 30, 20244 min read


iHumanism: a device for fostering integration and interconnectedness
By Chris Highland Chris is a teacher, writer, and humanist celebrant living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. In this...

Chris Highland
Sep 30, 20244 min read


Reflections on the UK’s summer riots: how should we characterise the participants?
By Aaron Aaron is proudly British, and a former member of the UK Independence Party and the Conservative Party. Like millions of British...

Aaron the Humanist
Sep 30, 20245 min read


The antidote to meaninglessness: book reviews
Edited by David Warden Christians are taught to believe that life without God is meaningless and they use this belief as a rhetorical...

David Warden
Sep 30, 20243 min read


What if a human being was a car?
By David Seddon What if a human being was a car You wanted to be driven safe and well, Yet still expressed something of what you are Or...

David Seddon
Sep 30, 20241 min read


Getting On
By John Hubbard And how are you getting on? Solicitude struggles not to patronise, enquiring from the inclined head and smiling eyes,...

John Hubbard
Sep 30, 20241 min read


Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
David Benatar, born in 1966, is a South African philosopher, academic, and author. He is best known for his advocacy of anti-natalism in...

David Warden
Sep 30, 20243 min read


If you’re a humanist, why not write for us?
Aaron suggests ways you could write for Humanistically Speaking Humanistically Speaking prides itself on being a platform for...

Aaron the Humanist
Sep 30, 20242 min read


Editor’s Welcome
The original Olympic Games were shut down in 393 CE by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I as part of his efforts to promote Christianity...

David Warden
Jul 31, 20242 min read


Lynda Tilley’s legacy lives on
By David Warden I was very pleased to come across a new appreciation of Lynda Tilley on Humanist TV Africa for Women's History Month. I...

David Warden
Jul 31, 20241 min read


What’s it like to actually stand for Parliament?
By David Warden David was the Social Democratic Party candidate for Bournemouth West in the UK General Election I first joined the Social...

David Warden
Jul 31, 20244 min read


My first ever protest
Report by David Warden David is the humanist representative on the multi-faith Bournemouth & Poole Holocaust Memorial Day Committee. On...

David Warden
Jul 31, 20242 min read


Sex Ed book for kids looks like the Kama Sutra
By Aaron the Humanist In this article, Aaron asks whether there is a humanist view on where to draw the line in terms of ‘age appropriate...

Aaron the Humanist
Jul 31, 20243 min read


What does ChatGPT think of Humanistically Speaking?
By ChatGPT We asked ChatGPT for some information about Humanistically Speaking and we were pleasantly surprised by its reply!...
ChatGPT
Jul 31, 20241 min read


Humanistically Speaking AGM in words and pictures
By David Warden On Friday 19th July, Humanistically Speaking Association held its Annual General Meeting. This year, we met in a...

David Warden
Jul 31, 20242 min read


New Prime Minister visits humanist group
Shortly after his victory in the UK General Election, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom honoured a longstanding commitment to...

Humanistically Speaking
Jul 31, 20241 min read


Humanist philosopher Steven Pinker describes Gaza genocide accusation as ill-founded
Report by David Warden Background and context On 29 December 2023, South Africa filed a case against Israel at the International Court of...

David Warden
Jul 31, 20243 min read


Is mankind our worst enemy?
By Aaron the Humanist In this piece we find Aaron at his gloomiest. Some days he feels that, were he passing by in a spaceship, he...

Aaron the Humanist
Jul 31, 20243 min read


Humans: the irrepressible innovator
Rather than being ‘our own worst enemy’ we are in fact our only hope. But not if hope is dashed by a relentless misanthropic pessimism.

Anthony Lewis
Jul 31, 202410 min read


How pseudoscientific ideas about food and medicine have helped to devalue science, reason, and all things Western
By Dr Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson is a semi-retired psychologist with the University of Regina, Canada and President...

Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson
Jul 31, 202415 min read
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