Starting next year, non-religious scouts can recite their Scout Promise without mention to God. But, the Scouting Association will also be holding on to its religious pledge.
Students' Union and college security accused of heavy-handed approach in row over 'offensive' atheist clothing
Humanist representatives at Europe's largest human rights conference call on the continent's states to remove their blasphemy laws, and condemn Russia's recent clampdown on gay rights
At the start of a new academic year, Rory Fenton calls for non-religious students to resist the tide of religious privilege on campus
He wasn’t infallible, but Ronald Dworkin’s courteously devastating arguments made everyone raise their game. Jonathan Rée reads his final book
Bjӧrn Ulvaeus is right to praise secularism - but his analysis of global politics leaves something to be desired.
The removal of two head teachers for allowing a Christian sect to hand out anti-evolution textbooks in a Scottish primary school divides opinion
Andrew Mueller on the confessions of a Fox mole
In a letter to a newspaper, the Pontiff once again hints that God’s mercy might extend to the faithless.
George Eliot is not only a great novelist but a pioneer of a serious, and underappreciated, approach to the meaning of religious belief, says Sarah Ditum