Brighton Humanists February 2019 Volume 1, Issue 4 The Epistle TV Scientist Alice Roberts is the New President of Humanists UK The scienst and television presenter Alice Roberts is the new president of Humanists UK, championing campaigns against state funding of faith schools and in favour of removing bishops from the House of Lords and the legalisaon of assisted dying. She is the author of nine popular science books and the host of TV programmes such as The Incredible Human Journey and Digging for Britain. She said she was honoured to be at the helm of “a community of like-minded, thoughul and compassionate people”, and described Humanism as “the most raonal and posive philosophy for life”. Roberts added: “As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and real damage in the past. “The real hallmarks of humanity are: curiosity and an amazing ability to cooperate. If we can use science widely and work together, I believe we can overcome the huge challenges facing us this century.” Roberts will serve a three- year term, taking over from Shappi Khorsandi. She is the fiſth female president of the organisaon. Tetchy Technology! Oh dear! I’m afraid we’ve had a few problems with our website and email accounts recently. Some of the people on our contact list may have received communications from us more than once and others possibly not at all. We have been working to try to fix this and hope that by now everyone who should be hearing from us is doing so. It would be a very great help indeed if everyone on our membership and contact list could please ensure that [email protected]is entered into your email contacts and your “safe senders” lists.
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Brighton Humanists February 2019 Volume 1, Issue 4
The Epistle
TV Scientist Alice Roberts is the New President of Humanists UK
The scientist and television presenter Alice Roberts is the new president of Humanists UK, championing campaigns against state funding of faith schools and
in favour of removing bishops from the House of Lords and the legalisation of assisted dying. She is the author of nine popular science books and the host of TV programmes such as The Incredible Human Journey and Digging for Britain. She said she was honoured to be at the helm of “a community of like-minded, thoughtful and compassionate people”, and described Humanism as “the most rational and positive philosophy for life”. Roberts added: “As an anthropologist, I believe
strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and real damage in the past. “The real hallmarks of humanity are: curiosity and an amazing ability to cooperate. If we can use science widely and work together, I believe we can overcome the huge challenges facing us this century.” Roberts will serve a three-year term, taking over from Shappi Khorsandi. She is the fifth female president of the organisation.
Yes, some of our members will be running an information table at the market in the Meridian Centre on Saturday 2nd March from 12:00 until 3:30. We will have lots of leaflets and infor-mation about Humanism.
We’re hoping to repeat this ac-tivity at other local markets, fairs, etc. and to develop it into a kind of “Brighton Humanists Road Show”. The purpose is to pro-mote Humanism, Brighton Hu-manists, Brighton Young Human-ists and Humanists UK in the community. We want to gain more members, more contacts and opportunities for community involvement. We also hope to find opportunities to raise funds. We already have a folding table and some folding chairs but we will also need the following: