Numbers: How Xmas is Changing
This week weÔÇÖre going to look at the different attitudes the American public hold towards Christmas.
Policy: Merry Hitchmas
The weekly report on global politics and secularism by Edwina Rogers Remembering Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens, the secular leader, award-winning author, and world-class debater, died in the month of December, so every Christmastime it's nice to remember him. It's a [...]
Policy: Discrimination Approved at Religious Colleges
Religious Universities Got a License to Discriminate? More than 25 religious colleges in the US received permission to discriminate in housing, staffing, and enrollment against students who are transgender, gender non-conforming, gay, or women who are pregnant, have had an abortion, or had sex [...]
How Secular France is Giving Faith a Voice in the Planet’s Future
THE political masters of the world are gathering in a Paris traumatised by terror to consider another sort of emergency, climate change; and they are not, of course, starting from scratch. As always happens with summits, there have been months [...]
Coalition: Atheist Alliance International’s Members
SPI Coalition member Rationalist International has announced the Rationalist International Conference to take place April 23-24, 2016 in Tallinn, capital of Estonia. This will be the first major international secular event in the Baltic countries. The SPI Coalition member Atheist [...]
Fellows: UK Sharia Courts? Sex for Xmas?
In this week's fellows report, SPI Fellow Marty Klein gives sex advice and Elham Manea is the official spokesperson for a jailed Saudi blogger. And if you're going to grad school, Greg Neimeyer can help.
Numbers: Why Countries Forbid Free Religion
What are the factors that make a country more or less free with regard to religion? LetÔÇÖs look at the results from the IHEU's Freedom of Thought Report 2015,
Interview: SPI Fellow Kevin Perrott on Solving “Humanity’s Biggest Problem”
Kevin Perrott is our newest Secular Policy Institute fellow, a leader in the movement to advance healthier and longer life. He is the founder and CEO of the Aging Research Network (AgeNet), and co-founder of SENS Research Foundation and LifeStar [...]
Breathtaking IHEU Report Listed in SPI’s Giant Collection of Demographic Studies
The weekly secular report on government and policy by Edwina Rogers IHEU Freedom of Thought Report Added to SPI's Giant Collection of Demographic Studies The International Humanist and Ethical Union's Freedom of Thought Report is wonderfully comprehensive, covering the freedom [...]
Numbers: How Many Scientists Are Nonreligious?
The weekly report on studies and demographics relating to religion and secularism by Johnny Monsarrat A banking executive who raced cars as a hobby once told me that sliding is the key. You're almost never fully in control of a [...]