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  • Day 4, atheist church - the double edged sword

    The Sunday Assembly co-founder Pippa Evans on the good and the bad of being called "the atheist church"

  • Day 3, how atheist should our assembly be?

    Sanderson Jones blogs about The Sunday Assembly as a celebration of life, and how people from all faiths are welcome

  • The Prophet: a satire

    Humanism has science, logic and polemics by the hatful. But what it needs is stories & someone to tell them

  • Day 2, building the team

    Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans discuss the importance of a good team when starting an atheist church

  • Day 1, planning

    In this blog series, Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, the founders of The Sunday Assembly, give a short course on how to build an atheist church

  • Peddling Mithras

    The editor made a mistake. Caspar Melville fesses up

  • Greece

    As the country struggles to overcome the economic crisis, extremist factions are turning to blasphemy law to assert the supremacy of Greek Orthodox traditions

  • Religion and the battle for free speech

    Blasphemy laws may sound antiquated, but they're an active tool of oppression in many parts of the globe

  • A distant view of home

    NASA's distant image of the Earth and Moon, taken by the Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn, is the perfect homage to the famous Pale Blue Dot

  • The Turncoats

    The strange sub-genre of ex-atheist memoirs, spurious as it is, has an important message for atheism – we need to do a better job of reaching out and holding on to people, says Dale DeBakcsy