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  • July 31, 2018
    Poll finds public backs reform of BBC Radio 4’s 'Thought for the Day'

    Fewer than one in five British people think the slot should always feature religious content, says the National Secular Society. 

  • May 25, 2018
    New reports call for more secular coronation for Prince Charles

    Academics say future coronation ceremonies should reflect the more secular, diverse and pluralistic nature of British society.

  • August 12, 2015
    ‘Religion’ in Sociology

    My ‘critical religion’ article entitled Critical reflections on the category of “Religion” in contemporary sociological discourse>/em> has recently been published by Nordic Journal of Religion

  • October 25, 2013
    How can Scotland flourish? A writer and a former bishop enquire

    Scotland is getting it wrong. This is the bold assertion of Blossom: What Scotland Needs to Flourish, a passionate polemic on Scottish culture, society and politics (including key issues like land reform) by award-winning journalist Lesley Riddoch.

  • August 13, 2012
    Experiencing a spirituality festival as a secular Humanist

    Festival of Spirituality and Peace in Edinburgh (3-27 August 2012) is an Interfaith and intercultural event; there are Jewish, Islamic, Christian and Daoist events, for example, as well as artists from every contintent but Antarctica, reports Katie MacFadyen. But what is the relationship between 'interfaith' and 'no faith'? Where do Secular Humanists fall in this atmosphere of inclusivity?

  • February 13, 2012
    French candidate wants to put church-state separation into constitution

    The Socialist front-runner in the race for the French presidency wants the separation of church and state to be put directly into the constitution.

  • February 5, 2012
    European secularists complain of unfair treatment

    Humanist and secularist organisations have accused the European Union of denying them equal treatment compared to the continent's Christian churches.

  • September 13, 2011
    Critical religion and the 'religion-secular' binary

    Classifying communities and their practices and values as ‘religious’ often has the effect of marginalising them from the mainstream of public debates on justice and the proper ends of the good life, says scholar Timothy Fitzgerald. Such classification has the effect of clothing secular reason with the misleading aura of neutral objectivity, he suggests.

  • January 27, 2011
    Secularism, racism and the politics of belonging

    A major conference on race, religion, secularity and public policy is taking place at the University of East London on Thursday 27 January 2011, organised by the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) and the Runnymede Trust. Ekklesia is among the presenting agencies.

  • November 9, 2010
    Major US academic project will examine religious and secular tensions

    The University of Notre Dame in the USA is inaugurating a major cross-cultural research project on 'contending modernities', religious and secular.