Sentences with phrase «humanist communities»

I am not prepared to say the religious communities, among whom I would include the humanist communities, are not capable even today of providing the religious superstructure and infrastructure that would renew our republic.

MacBain, who started her job at the beginning of September, had planned to travel the country starting humanist communities at schools and organizations nationwide.

Chris Stedman is the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University, coordinator of humanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.

Sponsored by the Humanist Community at Harvard, evangelical Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Zoroastrians, along with a number of atheists, were among those represented at a recent meal packaging event for hungry kids in the Boston area.

Chris Stedman is Executive Director of the Yale Humanist Community, author of «Faitheist,» and atheist columnist for Religion News Service.

Chris Stedman is the Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, Coordinator of Humanist Life for the Yale Humanist Community, and author of «Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.»

I am sure that the Humanist community has it varying degrees of sinners.

Teresa MacBain, one of the most high - profile nonbelievers in the country after profiles by NPR, The New York Times and Religion News Service, was fired from her newly created position with the Humanist Community at Harvard.

She has previously worked at the Humanist Community at Harvard as a humanist pastoral carer, held posts in a hospice and nursing home for elderly patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease, and worked as a humanist pastoral carer at a UK secondary school.

Opening last night's debate, Lord Harrison, argued «that the BBC has failed the humanist community in Britain both in the spirit and in the letter of the Communications Act 2003, which requires the BBC to schedule programmes on religion and other beliefs, including humanism... The truth is that religious public broadcasting is growing while Anglicanism contracts.»

OKCupid founder Maxwell Krohn speaks before the Harvard Humanist Community, which recognized the online dating Web site OKCupid at an event at the Harvard University Science Center.

Cambridge, MA - The Harvard Humanist Community recognizes the online dating Web site OKCupid, represented by founder Maxwell Krohn, at an event at the Harvard University Science Center.

Cambridge, MA - OKCupid founder Maxwell Krohn prepares before the Harvard Humanist Community recognized the online dating Web site OKCupid at an event at the Harvard University Science Center.

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As the first Humanist Chaplain at USC, he is committed to developing a community that offers regular inspiration, pastoral care, supportive fellowship and service opportunities to students, faculty, staff members and local families and individuals exploring or actively pursuing secular goodness as a way of life.

However, we do know that Bart Campolo is now serving as a Humanist chaplain and speaking at Secular Student Alliance conferences designed to gather a «community of atheists, agnostics, and nonbelievers.»

One day, I hope there will soon be communities for every different type of atheist, agnostic and humanist.

The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves to enter into dialogue with other religions and with secular humanist ideologies regarding the nature and rights of the human person and the meaning of social justice enabling to build together a new spiritually - oriented humanism and a more humane society.

The three themes emphasized in the college tradition from the foundation are: modern medical technology, the humanist culture of service and justice to the community of the poor and the needy, and religion as the source of the humanist culture.

They see more clearly than the liberal humanists that human devotion is shaped in communities of faith and life.

Naturalists and humanists, on the other hand, may find that the community that mediates and supports their perspective is extremely diffuse.

We want a government that will recognise the contribution made by secular and humanist groups within the voluntary and community sector.

«We call on the international community to stop placating states which criminalise being a humanist or otherwise non-religious, to condemn the persecution of humanists and atheists, and to work with human rights defenders around the world to bring an end to this injustice.»

The Young Atheist's Handbook was written by science teacher Alom Shaha and tells the story of his upbringing in a Bangladeshi Muslim community in South East London, how he overcame his inner conflict surrounding his atheism, and the lessons he learnt in leading a good life, full of awe and wonder, based on humanist principles.

«More and more atheist, humanist and secular student societies are forming on campuses across the UK and we deserve the same levels of respect as any other community.

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Director Sean Baker, whose last film was Tangerine, a remarkable movie about transgender prostitutes in West Hollywood, brings his humanist eye to another community of social outcasts: a group of children spending their summer making mischief at the low - cost motels on the strip leading up to Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida.

«There is a strong divide between the conservative and liberal Christians in Tennessee, but the non-religious community is so small that it is completely overlooked,» remarked Tad Beaty from the Chattanooga Humanist Assembly.

Curated by Professor Maria Antonella Pelizzari, along with MFA Candidates in the Hunter College Curatorial Studies Program, the group exhibition celebrated Magnum Photos» 70 years of commitment to community and humanist values.

His resume includes lawyer, soldier, senior business executive, confidant of prime ministers and presidents, negotiator, community leader and builder, mentor, philanthropist and humanist.