Beyond Belief
I was a guest on BBC Radio Four’s Beyond Belief talking about about the bridges and divides caused by belief at Christmas
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Tag: Atheism
Christian nationalism is un-conservative
An increasingly vocal minority want the UK to retain its Christian character, even if it has lost its Christian majority
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Seeking midwinter light
A better quest than the vain search for the true meaning of Christmas
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What does it mean to be human?
In Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope, Sarah Bakewell reflects on 700 years of humanist thought, perusing the work of various writers, thinkers, scientists and artists who have spent time trying to understand what it means to be truly human. She tells the story of humanism, explaining why it has continued to flourish for so many years in spite of opposition from other groups.
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