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Writing tagged: ‘humanism’

Sunny bunny

Newsletter No. 5: ‘Incongruous owl’

dawn chorus · Simon Armitage · the invention of the telescope · huge, sprawling collaborations · Withnail & I · book smells · re-assembling Darwin’s research notes · converting walks into words · Daniel Dennett · writing letters · humanist politics · dentistry with stone tools · analysing penguin poo · Melissa Harrison · Robert Macfarlane · swallows

Published 25-Apr-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: Ben Myers, birds, Charles Darwin, history of science, humanism, Melissa Harrison, Robert Macfarlane, swallows
Trig point

‘Spiritual’ won’t do

In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.

Published 23-Apr-2017
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: humanism, religion, skepticism, the Moor
The Fall

An atheist somehow manages to tell right from wrong

To think of all the deliciously immoral acts I could have been getting up to today, if only it had occurred to me I needn’t be impeded by any sense of right or wrong.

Published 07-Nov-2016
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: atheism, humanism, religion

Book review: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law

A very short introduction.

Published 05-Jul-2016
Filed under: Writing Genres: History Tags: humanism, reading, reviews, skepticism, …a very short introduction (book series)

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