Sentences with phrase «of humanists»

Chief Executive of Humanists UK Andrew Copson added, «Humanists have been contributing positively to religious education in schools for decades and have always been strong advocates for the importance of the subject.

To describe the legal recognition of humanist marriages as a «fringe» issue insults the many couples - much larger in number than these many small religious groups - whose planned marriages next year will not be able to go ahead if Number 10 blocks this change.»

Henry Moore, English sculptor whose organically shaped, abstract, bronze and stone figures constitute the major 20th - century manifestation of the humanist tradition in sculpture.

«Rather it is a group of humanists who care about the quality of life around us and feel their contributions are part of mainstream cultural and social conversations.

Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK, said, «This is a very disappointing development given the comprehensive nature of the judgment and is deeply upsetting for both Laura and Eunan, who were so happy to have had certainty in relation to their wedding later this month.

Russo continued, «In Scotland, where humanist marriages are legally recognised, humanist ceremonies are now the most popular type of belief - based ceremony, and many more people are aware of humanist ceremonies and want one for themselves.

Cornelia Parker RA has installed a beautifully elegant room of work made in black and white; there are moving displays of work by Alan Davie RA and John Bellany RA who died this year, and there is a kind of humanist room curated by Eileen Cooper RA, which displays lots of deeply - felt figurative work.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has responded with shock and disappointment at reports that Number 10 is blocking the legal recognition of humanist marriages because Lynton Crosby, David Cameron's election guru, sees reform as a «fringe» issue.

Global persecution of humanists, atheists and the non-religious has risen over the past year, a new, systematic report published today has found.

Andrew Copson Chief Executive of the BHA commented «We welcome this move towards equality for same sex couples, but the exclusion of humanist celebrants from this Bill is unfair.

Ms Gallagher made oral submissions on behalf of Humanists UK focusing on the discrimination he has faced.

The data published today shows 68 % of people in Britain — just under 35 million people — are aware of humanist ceremonies and 30 % of people have attended one or more humanist ceremonies.

These are the hallmarks of a humanist celebrant accredited by the British Humanist Association and it is important to always check for that accreditation.

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.

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.»

That's one hope of humanists: That people choose belief systems based on fact.

Media - generated imagery of icons Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, and Helen Keller, not unlike those used by Warhol, is combined with quotations expressing political conviction, resulting in a new form of humanist Pop portraiture.

A clear understanding of the humanist principle of functional ultimacy is critical because influential critics grossly misinterpret it or designate a different principle as humanism's operative norm.

At the bottom of the humanist world view hovers the opinion that ultimate reality may not be intrinsically benevolent or supportive of human welfare.

The so - called «death of God» theologians have made much of this shift from stoicism to optimism.27 But the essential point of this humanist doctrine of authenticity is that we can «be ourselves» using our individuality for shaping our lives, and that is authentic existence.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

In response to the UK assuming the chairmanship of the Council of Europe today, the British Humanist Association has said the chairmanship «provides a welcome opportunity for the UK to affirm the importance of strong and effective human rights legislation, and to promote the inclusion of humanists as well as religious people in European initiatives.»

Hundreds of MPs and Peers have put pressure on the Government to press on with the legalisation of humanist marriage in recent days.

He is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, Provost of Centre for Inquiry UK and a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group.

His paintings came out of a humanist tradition, and Rembrandt was revered above all.

Indeed, it lies at the heart of his humanist conviction that there is a hard and stubborn core of human character which survives all the changes and chances of time.

Here, a fundamental role will be played by the current reinterpretation of the humanist view of life and its influences on the relationship between humans and natur.

Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 2017, 98m Leave it to Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, NYFF 2011), peerless master of humanist tragicomedy, to make the first great fiction film about the 21st century migrant crisis.

A fundamental error of the social sciences, and a fundamental lapse even of some humanists, has been to take the observable manifestations of some human concern as if they were the concern itself.

When a man becomes a committed Christian he sooner or later sees the falsity, the illusions, and the limitations of the humanist geocentric way of thinking.

Far from constituting a wholesale rejection of his humanist upbringing, Percy's entry into the church meant the transposition of his old secular values into a new religious key.

Actually, one of the largest contributors to the assist Ja - pan campaign is the USA government i.e. we the taxpayers, a collection of humanists, humanitarians, secularists, atheists, agnostics, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Pagans.

I was refering to the ad campaign being a philosophical discussion, as it is targetted at exposing a wider range of the public to the beliefs of Humanists (at least as American Humanist Association understands them).

The Inquisition tracked down followers of the Humanists and, more critically, the Illuminists or Alumbrados, who promoted a personalist, mystical religion which denied the necessity of the Church and public worship.

He had an admirable start, as an urbane, witty reformer, the author of humanist books....

If one is looking for ethics unadorned with metaphysics, the membership rolls of the Humanist Association are waiting to be filled.

The technology of the scientists is a much more effective agent of liberation than the propaganda of the humanists.