Faith & Religion

A friend to the friendless

A friend to the friendless

In the July/August 2011 issue of New Humanist, Richard Smyth assessed the role of prison chaplains. Here David Silver, who is serving a life sentence in HMP Gartree, offers his…

Captive audience

Captive audience

Sympathetic ear or religious recruiter - what’s a prison chaplain for? Richard Smyth finds out

The Group for Atheistic & Agnostic Humanism

Freethinking in the Arab Spring

Expressing irreligious views can be dangerous in the Middle East but, for the region's largest group of online rationalists, the Egyptian revolution is a cause for optimism, finds Max Opray

Q&A: Marcus Brigstocke

Q&A: Marcus Brigstocke

Between the arrogant believers and the smug atheists stands a lone comic, with only a successful career for comfort.

Demonising Muslims

Demonising Muslims

When does criticism of religion cross the line into racism? Paul Sims investigates

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