Daily Archives: October 12, 2017

Ian Bushfield, M.Sc., on Humanist Marriages in BC

by | October 12, 2017

Ian Bushfield, M.Sc., is the Executive Director of the British Columbia Humanist Association (BCHA). The BCHA has been working to have humanist marriages on the same plane as other marriages in the province. Here we talk about it. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How did humanists not acquire legal equality for their marriages in British Columbia, Canada… Read more »

“Oh Friar, damned souls use the word banishment to describe hell.”

by | October 12, 2017

Scott Douglas Jacobsen There is a new course on the block on the cognitive science of religion (edX, 2017; The Ubyssey, 2017). It comes riding the wave of the Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, movement continuing to make inroads into the alternate-to-Academia educational route, i.e. more affordable, more points of intake, more variation in… Read more »