Podcast – Philosophy with Children Fraser Sutherland • HSS • July 2018 As well as being hosted on our website you can find the Humanitie podcast on itunes under the podcast menu and through the apple podcast app. Hosted by Stuart Dougan Humanitie is a podcast provided by Humanist Society Scotland that aims…
Podcast – What is Humanism? Fraser Sutherland • HSS • June 2018 As well as being hosted on our website you can find the Humanitie podcast on itunes under the podcast menu and through the apple podcast app. Hosted by Stuart Dougan Humanitie is a podcast provided by Humanist Society Scotland that aims…
My time as a volunteer Humanist School Visitor Fraser Sutherland • HSS • June 2018 By Mervyn Barr, Humanist Celebrant and School Visitor I joined Humanist Society Scotland several years ago and I trained to become a registered celebrant in spring 2017, a role which I love doing. I also became involved in late 2017…
Blasphemy, Human Rights and a very naughty boy Fraser Sutherland • HSS • June 2018 By Fraser Sutherland, Campaigns Manager, Humanist Society Scotland Last week when talking to friends about the campaign work Humanist Society Scotland, they expressed surprise that Scotland still has a common law offence against Blasphemy. To be fair, it is a…
Becoming a Humanist Celebrant Humanist Society Scotland • HSS • June 2018 by Madeleine Clark, originally published in the 2016 Autumn edition of Humanitie magazine. So – you are at a Humanist ceremony and you love it. It is personal and meaningful, and really gets under the skin of the person/ couple/…
Charities must check their moral compass reads true north Fraser Sutherland • HSS • March 2018 By Craig Wilson. Craig is Parliamentary Officer for Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and was a speaker at the Humanist Society Scotland event ‘Values for a Modern Scotland’ event at the SEC, Glasgow in February 2018. This year’s SCVO…
Do Humanists celebrate Christmas or are they all just like Ebenezer Scrooge? Humbug! Fraser Sutherland • HSS • December 2017 “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!” – Scrooge, A Christmas Carol…
Are Scottish ‘Hate Crime’ laws fit for purpose? Fraser Sutherland • HSS • November 2017 By Fraser Sutherland, Campaigns Manager Humanist Society Scotland Few will forget the shocking religiously motivated murder of popular Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah in 2016. But the legacy of this crime and how the perpetrator was charged in the Scottish legal…
Academic Success Fraser Sutherland • HSS • November 2017 Professor Callum Brown Following the publication of the Religion in Scots Law report in 2016, the University of Glasgow Humanist Studies Hub and Humanist Society Scotland co-hosted four seminars and a Religion and Law conference to consider the report’s findings….
Equal Protection Bill Fraser Sutherland • HSS • October 2017 By John Finnie MSP “There are some things where Scotland is doing very, very well and there are some things that are absolutely shocking, where Scotland is coming last in the world. We still in Scotland say that it’s okay…
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