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DATE MAIN TOPICS
iss 50 February 2012 Amnesty International at LSH; A Military Free School; Faith Schools Recruitment; Gay? - Prayer Can Cure You; This Time I mean My Vows; Skeptics In The Pub; A Short Course On Humanism; Darwin Day Lecture; LSH Bloggers; Creationism Out Of Schools; Burnley Bishop Wrong Again; The LSH Library Explained; ...and as usual much, much more. Click through to read it in full.
iss 49 January 2012

Fat Fairy sighted in GT Eccleston; Obit. To Hitch ; Lancaster Skeptics in The Pub; Quick Quotes [all Hitchens this month] ; Over 3,000 UK 'Honour Attacks' in 2010; Crem Encounters ;From The Committee Room ; Next Meeting [Amnesty International] ; LSH on BBC ; ‘Jesus is Watching You’; What Our Friends Are Up To; and much more.

iss 48 December 2011 Stepping Stones Nigeria; BHA GRAM report; Ian goes back to school; Skeptics in Pubs; Patronising Prelate; Dawkins in the LSH Virtual Library; Charities good and bad; Remembrance Sunday; New Kids on the Blog; Guide God out of Scouts; and The Fat Fairy Cometh at our next meeting on the 21st December (complete with a Christmas verse)
iss 47 November 2011 NW Humanists Conference - pics and comments; Standing Orders; Tim Curtis Memorial Lecture; New Book in LSH Library; Child Abuses in Lancashire; Remembrance Sunday; The Power of Prayer; Armed Forces Cuts and Christian Chaplains; Child Witches; What Our Friends Are Doing.
iss 46 October 2011 NW HumanistsConference Distinguished Guests; Gasland The Movie - Serious Concerns; Misogynist Bishop; Blackpool Bobbies v The Bible; Crem Encounters; Community splitting schools; Fascinating Facts about Hallowee'n; Linda and Ian on the Beeb; October AGM agenda;
iss 45 September 2011 ‘Good Reasons For Believing In God’ - ‘Eat Your Sins’ - NWhumanists Conference Final Programme - Want To Be A Guinea Pig? - Help improve the website; Crem-Encounters - Douglas Adams gem - Charles Templeton quote - Why We Support DiD - Fire in Water? - GasLand Film - Ambrose Bierce thought - What Our Friends Are Doing.
iss 44 August 2011 Report on July Meeting - If You Could Change One Thing - ‘Not’ Peter Hitchens - New LSH Car-Stickers - From The Committee Room - No More Catholic Secrets! - NWhumanists - Conference - Crem-Encounters - Carlin Quote - Bring Back [E.bac] - R.E. Chaplains or Charlatans? - Eat Your Sins! - What About The Stork? - More Humanists than Catholics - What Our Friends Are Doing - and lots more.
iss 43 July 2011 Conference report - LSH on BBC - From Committee Room - Hospital Forum - Can't be a 'fulfilled' atheist? - Earn £20 - Crem-encounters - Council for Secular Humanism - Sure & Certain? - Gecha Pecha Kucha - + usual cartoons & 'quick-quotes'.
iss 42 June 2011 LSH see stars - LASH? (Perhaps not) - Tales from The Crypt - Family Week - Not the end of the world - Almighty Conundrum - Spiritual Care - LSH Fundraising - BHA Conference - NW Humanists [Autumn] Conference - Creationism in Schools - Brethren Education - Scientology = Brethren - LSH Meeting 15th June ... Plus usual mix of quotes & cartoons.
iss 41 May 2011 Reply to Cardinal's Warning; BHA & Assisted Dying; Religions feted by Cameron; Homophobic Faith Schools? ; From The Committee Room; April Meeting [report] ; God Cures (sometimes) - Cartoon ; Quick Quote - Sam Harris ; LSH / Hospital Advisory Group; What Would Your Book Be? ; Republican's Lament; Quick Quote - Chris' Hitchens; Preventing Forced Marriages; Royal Wedding [Cartoon]; Quick Quote - Johann Hari ; 'The Necessity of Atheism' ; Invitation Declined by LSH; LSH Meeting - Wed 18th May; What Our Friends Are Doing; The Small Print Re Meetings
iss 40 April 2011 LSH and The Census - See What You Want to See - Lively Debate - Secular Law Prevails - Sect School for Hornby - £29m 'for what?' - Urgent Response!? - Oh Those Easter Bunnies - You Say Either I say ... - Dignity In Dying In Lancashire - Blimey! Now Humanism in Schools.
iss 39 Mar 2011 Census Campaign - Window sticker Discussion - Darwin Day Lecture - Preston Interfaith Week Snubs Us - Promotion by Funeral Director: A First for Humanism - CofE Double Standards on Halal - Hospital Records Wrong - Lancashire Academies - Sharia Law - Easy Money-Raising for Us
iss 38 Feb 2011 A Few Stokes Quotes ... A Ranting Reverend - So Many Gods & So Little Time - From The Committee Room - What You Think of Us - American Atheists - Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain Appeal - No Blacks-No Irish-No Gays - Untangling The Web [Forums] - Census Campaign - Wanted - Young Humanists
iss 37 Jan 2011 Beyond Belief - The Humanist Wand of Wisdom - Resolution Revolution - LCC SACRE - LSH Committee Room - Condoms & The Pope - Burnley & Blackburn Bishops say 'Men Only' - Untangling The Web #2 [Blogging] - Over 50% of Britons Not Religious - For God's Sake Say So - What Our Friends Are Doing.
iss 36 Dec 2010 December Meeting - Website Of The Year - National Census 2011 - Remembrance Sunday - Report on November Meeting - Rise in Non-religious - Hitchens v Blair - Humans or Humanity? - LSH Library - Humanist Ceremonies - Report on GRAM - Untangling The Web - LSH Winter Social.
iss 35 Nov 2010 Report on AGM - LSH on I.O.M. - Get Your Xmas Cards Here - P4C for LSH - Census - Learning To Be Human - Hitchens v Blair - ‘In My View’ - UKAFHA - Integration v Segregation - ‘Why I’m A Humanist’ - What Our Friends Are Doing - Pray or Pay your busfare - Cancer Lecture UCLAN - Blasphemy Law Resurrected - Allan Muir - Claire Rayner - LSH Winter Gathering - ‘No Religion’ Lecture
iss 34 Oct 2010 Protest the Pope March' - LSH AGM - St Catherine's Hospice - Holyoake Lecture - Preston Lecture - Complaint to BBC [& Reply] - Confessions of a protest-march virgin - Exploring Humanism Course - Humanism & Morals - cartoons & quick quotes
iss 33 Sep 2010 Two cartoons (instead of one) - ‘Quick Quotes’ - report on August’s meeting – details of September’s meeting - notice of October’s AGM - ‘Pope/Nope’ articles – Christian tolerance in action - Darwin’s rooms in Cambridge - a South African ‘healer’ - NW Regional Conference update - Preston OutreachTalk No.3 – What other Humanist groups do
iss 32 Aug 2010 Pecha Kutcha in August - Retroactive Praying - Too Old at Four - Discover Humanism [Course] - 2010 Holyoake Lecture - Humanist Conference - Questival - 'Pope-Nope' - Faith Schools & Sex - Faith Schools & Wealth.
iss 31 July 2010 Preston Outreach report - Don't say you're an Atheist - Indoctrination Admission - Christians like Camels - Chevalier de la Barre Day - Details of July meeting - Read Your Bible
iss 30 June 2010 Website news - Outreach Arrives - Jokes, Quotes & Cartoons - Catholic abuse survivors - YMCA Saga - Creating Sink Schools - Hansard & High Court talking sense
iss 29 May 2010 New website; LSH in the News again; No Dignity in Dying - due to volcano; LSH hosts Humanism course; PAWs for Thought; Halal Food; WBC and YMCA; NW Humanists Event; Protest the Pope
iss 28 April 2010

Faith Forums; Potholing? ; Child Abuse and the Vatican ; Dignity in Dying ; PAW Report; New Baby ; LSH Library ; 2010 Outreach Event ; Halal Food ; Did Prison Work?
iss 27 March 2010 Faith Schools ; Chaplains ; Report from First PAWs Meeting ; Outreach ; Pope's Visit ; Severing Ties Between Church and State ; Green Funerals ; LSH now on Facebook.
iss 26 February 2010 The Welsh Wizard - Plans for Humanist Week - How Green Was My Funeral - FoI Requests - The Veil and You - Spirituality for Humanists? - CitizenZone - 'Infidel' (extract) - Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
iss 25 January 2010 The Welsh Wizard - Atheist Guide To Christmas - Stop Council Prayers - Proselytising Educators - Multi-Faceted Humanism - Nine Lessons and Carols (review).