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Buxton Group in abeyance

At the meeting on 18th October, after a very interesting talk on the Human Rights Act by Guy Otten, and after a full and frank discussion, the decision was taken not to continue with monthly meetings of Buxton Humanists.  Very occasional meetings may still be held in Buxton.

November 2, 2010   Posted in: All  Comments Closed

Exploring Humanism – an Introductory Course The third public presentation of Exploring Humanism – an Introductory Course will be held at Friends Meeting House, Manchester from 7pm to 9pm on six successive Monday  evenings, commencing 1 November 2010. The cost is £14.  The course covers the following topics: Session 1    Humanist beliefs and practice Session 2    [...]

October 5, 2010   Posted in: All  No Comments

Buxton Group – October 2010

There will be a meeting of the Buxton group on Monday 18th October 2010 at 7 for 7:30 in the piano lounge at the Old Hall Hotel.  The speaker will be Guy Otten, chair of Greater Manchester Humanists who will speak on “Human Rights”.

August 26, 2010   Posted in: All  No Comments

News from Buxton group – Apr 10

The April meeting of the group took place at the Old Hall Hotel on 19th April and took the form of a discussion of issues raised by “The Book of Atheist Spirituality” by Andre Comte-Sponville.  Almost everyone there was dismissive of the concept of spirituality whether they had read the book or not.    Chris [...]

April 28, 2010   Posted in: All  No Comments

Member’s Forum

We now have a forum – for GMH members only – on the thinkhumanism website.  To participate in the GMH forum, you will need to be registered as a user with forum.thinkhumanism.com. Then send a message via the forum to the GMH group moderator (Elio Pennisi, our international member who lives in Italy) so that he can arrange [...]

April 27, 2010   Posted in: All  No Comments

Buxton group hears about Amnesty International

At the meeting on Monday 15th March at the Old Hall Hotel in Buxton, the group heard a talk from Anne Walker about her long-standing and considerable involvement in the work of Amnesty International (AI). Anne is also a long-standing member of the British Humanist Association and Greater Manchester Humanists. Anne gave us a very [...]

March 23, 2010   Posted in: All  No Comments

News from Buxton group – 30 Jan 10

The first meeting of 2010 was attended by an indomitable 7 of us since the weather was still not encouraging venturing out in the evening. We discussed current BHA campaigns and agreed to write separately to local candidates in the forthcoming election seeking their views on 3 topics: – the “religious” question in the census [...]

January 30, 2010   Posted in: All  No Comments

News from the Buxton group – Jan 10

The December meeting took the form of a social with bring-and-share food. The next meeting will be on Monday 18th January at 7 for 7.30 pm at the Old Hall.  The subject will be the Basics of Humanism – there will be 3 sessions of around 20 to 25 minutes each – History of Humanism [...]

January 9, 2010   Posted in: All  No Comments

News from the Buxton group – Dec 09

On 16th November, Cath Johnstone from Transition Buxton came to talk to the group about Buxton’s answer to the twin challenges of Climate Change and Peak Oil.  She started off by showing that the ideals of Humanism are compatible with the goals behind the Transition Town movement.  Climate Change is now widely discussed in the [...]

December 1, 2009   Posted in: All  No Comments

FMH Introduction to Humanism course

Exploring Humanism – an Introductory Course Led by Robin Grinter and Anna Whitehead started on 26 October 2009.  At the Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, M/C £12 for 6 weekly sessions.  Further courses are planned – contact John Coss for details.

October 27, 2009   Posted in: All  No Comments