Humanism is a philosophy of life based on a concern for humanity rather than a belief in god. Humanists believe […]
When the Vatican and the Kremlin were both claiming the word, Paul Kurtz asked who really had the right to call themselves a humanist. His answer put free thought at the heart of it.
The Cambridge Ethical Society was established in 1888, inspired by the London Ethical Society (formed two years earlier). It aimed […]
The 1980 High Court case in which the South Place Ethical Society, owner of Conway Hall, won back its charitable status by being told it was not religious, opening the way for the British Humanist Association to become a charity and marking a new line in law between religion and humanist belief.