September-October issue

Contents 124:

LOVE AND JOY AT STORMONT

Myrtle Ewing celebrates a rare event

UPROOTING SECTARIANISM

Brian McClinton reports a CSI – Crime Scene Inactivity

SECULAR EDUCATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Jane Donnelly demands equal protection for all children

HOT TOPICS

Protest Pope Benedict; HAI at Aras; Assisted Dying

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Richard Craig on tolerance in Belfast and bigotry in Africa

COHABITATION AND THE CIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACT

Peter O’Hara suggests some changes in the new Irish law

FRANCIS BACON’S ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

Brian McClinton on the inventor of the idea of progress

BEYOND BELIEF

Ann James addresses the Merriman Summer School

CATHOLICISM IS DEVIL WORSHIP

But what religion isn’t? asks William Harwood

CARITAS IN VERITATE

Dick Spicer breaks open a curate’s egg

CLINGING TO A ROCK

Stuart Hartill: Tynwald Day; Newman; Assisted Suicide

POETRY CORNER

LETTERS

PROSPERO’S MEDIA DAIRY

BOOKS: Complaint; Nothing to Lose; Menopausal

Palestine; Charles Darwin’s Evolutionary Writings

BACK TO BIBLICAL BASICS

FILM: Agora

BAN THE BURQA?

Sangeeta Mall looks beneath a symbol of oppression

HUMANISM IRELAND 123

The July-August issue of Humanism Ireland is out now.

CONTENTS

END GAZA BLOCKADE NOW!

Mohammed Samaana appeals for Gazan suffering to end

JUDAISM TAKEN SERIOUSLY

Lothar Luken explores a religious ideology

NELSON’S BLINKERED VIEW

Will snakes soon be talking in the Ulster Museum?

AMNESTY, JIHAD AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS

Brice Dickson on a controversy within Amnesty

HOT TOPICS

A Truth Commission; Millionaires’ Axe; Enlightenment

IRELAND TOURIST GUIDE

Making sense of an Ireland people

DUBIOUS CONSOLATIONS

Bob Rees argues that religion isn’t harmless

VEC PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Dick Spicer replies to Catherine O’Brien

SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET

Brian McClinton on the greatest play by the greatest writer

DUST-VEIL IMPACTS

David Godden warns of the destruction to come

THE LOST SYMBOL

Kenneth Halford wants an ancient image rehabilitated

CLINGING TO A ROCK

Stuart Hartill on the death penalty and other matters

MITHRA LIVES IN THE VATICAN

William Harwood traces the mithraic origins of Christianity

POETRY CORNER

PROSPERO’S DAIRY

FILMS: Four Lions

BOOK: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

SHORT STORY: The Son of God by Nicholas Emmett

EHF GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Ann James reports

HUMANISM IRELAND 122

Hi! 122, May-June, is now out and should be available in Eason's and other shops.

In this issue:

THE NEW POLITICS

Robin Wilson mounts a platform for change

CAMP QUEST IRELAND 2010

Rita Ann Harrold announces a new venture

NO MORE HEROES

Kenneth Halford wants an end to madness

CHERCHEZ LES FEMMES

Jeanne Rathbone wants some raging feminatheists

ROTTING FROM THE CORE

Jason Walsh says Irish Catholicism’s demise isn’t all good

PHILOSOPHY CLASS

Brian McClinton wants Philosophy in schools

‘INTEGRATING’ CHILDREN

Catherine O’Brien wants proper integration in schools

CHOICE WITHOUT BIAS

Dick Spicer wants stronger safeguards for children

MONTAIGNE’S ESSAYS

Brian McClinton seeks life’s meaning from a Frenchman

THE CONSOLATIONS OF FAITH; POETRY CORNER

Dick Spicer wants Humanists to understand religious belief

LOOKING FOR THE VEEDON FLEECE

Róise Carroll says religion is an obstacle to understanding

EQUALITY COMES DROPPING SLOW

Brian Whiteside is frustrated by the slow pace of change

CLINGING TO A ROCK WITH STUART HARTILL

LETTERS; MORE POETRY (page 21)

FILMS: The Hurt Locker; The Class; The White Ribbon

THEATRE: Roger Clifford applauds Over the Bridge

BOOK: Contested Will

BOOK: William Harwood reviews The Case for God

PROSPERO’S MEDIA DIARY: THE TRIAL OF BENEDICT

Election 2010

In Northern Ireland, this election potentially marks a watershed moment in the process of building a peaceful and stable society here. For all the pre-election posturing from the usual suspects, only Jim Allister’s TUV now stands outside a broad all-party consensus on the shape of government here. But while others may now be committed to peace and stability, only Alliance is committed to building a shared society where we are one diverse community, rather than two opposed communities locked in uneasy stalemate. Only Alliance is committed to replacing the cumbersome structures of power-division at Stormont with ones of genuine power-sharing.

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