A Humanist Dad (2025)

29/09/2025

I've recently done an update post on the range of talks, workshops and podcast interviews I offer, along with my consultancy services for progressive organisations, and links to my professional profile and endorsements.

If you're interested, please get in touch and please share the post to help it reach a wider audience. My consultancy is focused on helping progressive organisations to improve their local and supporter engagement. I'm available for talks and interviews on humanism and neurodiversity, parenting, community organising, science fiction and graphic design.

I’m proud to have received some fantastic professional references and endorsements for my work. These are really important as I build my profile. If we've collaborated and you're able to share an endorsement, that would mean so much.

An update on the talks, workshops and podcast interviews I’m available for, as well as my consultancy services for third sector and progressive organisations seeking to improve their local and supp…

29/09/2025

What are communities for the 'Humanist, humanist-curious or humanist friendly'? What does it mean to welcome all who welcome all? How can we describe secular communities' inclusion, in ways that convey their distinctive values?

What does it mean to welcome all who welcome all? How can we describe secular communities’ inclusion, in ways that convey their distinctive values? I’m reflecting on these questions following…

25/09/2025

Another nice episode of The Family Skeptical podcast. As always I most enjoy the intentional reflective nature of Moms and Pops discussions. I love the chosen names Reader and Go, and wish Reader luck with their pronoun journey. On the discussion of death, I think Pops has the right approach. Address their curiosity as it comes up, it's isn't about one perfect **Big Conversation** but being there for them and open to lots of conversations.

My blog on D is for Death: https://humanistdad.uk/2024/09/20/d-is-for-death-a-z-of-humanist-parenting/

The new episode is up - and it kinda became one big family update somehow. We cover pronouns, my mental health, and Go’s realization about death and how we discuss death more generally. You have to listen to the end to understand this picture.

And we recorded this before the death of Charlie Kirk. I didn’t know if the kids would hear about it at school, but it hasn’t been a topic of conversation. I usually try to bring up big things going on in the world, but since he was not someone we ever talked about, I haven’t made it a priority yet. However, I think everything we said about talking about death certainly applies.

24/09/2025

As humanists who accept the natural role of death in our one and only life, we have some distinct perspectives on the topics of death and mortality. Our community group’s discussion of these last month was surprisingly uplifting and meaningful.

As humanists who accept the natural role of death in our one and only life, we have some distinct perspectives on the topics of death and mortality. Our community group’s discussion of these was su…

21/09/2025

Last week I visited my local secular congregation to give a talk about humanism and graphic design. It got me thinking about my upcoming workshop on making our communities family-inclusive.

Visiting my local secular congregation – to give a talk about humanism and graphic design – has got me thinking about my upcoming workshop on making our communities family-inclusive.

17/09/2025

In my A-Z of humanist parenting, S is for S*x Positivity. S*xual ethics – from views on consent and bodily autonomy, to sexual orientation, pleasure, and age appropriate knowledge – can be significant points of divergence between humanist and conservative or authoritarian worldviews and parenting styles.

S*xual ethics – from views on consent and bodily autonomy, to sexual orientation, pleasure, and age appropriate knowledge – can be significant points of divergence between humanist and …

16/09/2025

Confusion and delay! Is Thomas the Tank Engine a fascist dystopia? To my surprise this is my most read article over the last few years. It's a tongue in cheek look at the suffocatingly twee conservativism of Thomas the Tank Engine and its classist, ableist authoritarianism.
https://buff.ly/NGgpZ53

Dear boys, you love trains, and Thomas the Tank Engine brings you so much joy, but the deep and insidious conservatism of this franchise grates on me.

15/09/2025

Weeks after calling for the 're-founding' of UK on biblical teachings, Tory frontbencher Danny Kruger defects to Reform. He's also called for faith groups to be funded to replace public services. This is the UK hard right's push for US style White Christian Nationalism in our politics.

The East Wiltshire MP said the Conservatives were no longer the main party of opposition.

15/09/2025

I'm not going to be able to attend the Stop Trump protest in London this Wednesday. But I fully support and celebrate those going to stand up to fascism and the hate-stirring white nationalists who have rallied on our capital's streets.

https://stoptrump.org.uk/protest/

In P is for Protest (part of my A-Z of humanist parenting) series, I talk about how learning about, playing with, witnessing and participating in protests can protect kids from dommerism, show them the value of community and collective action, and empower them to make a difference.

https://humanistdad.uk/2025/06/30/p-is-for-protest-a-z-of-humanist-parenting/

Stop Trump Coalition

15/09/2025

Visiting my local secular congregation - to give a talk about humanism and graphic design - has got me thinking about my upcoming workshop on making our communities family-inclusive.

Visiting my local secular congregation – to give a talk about humanism and graphic design – has got me thinking about my upcoming workshop on making our communities family-inclusive.

14/09/2025

Our local humanist group recently held an event on political reform, with a speaker focusing on Republicanism. My write up has advice for humanist community organisers considering similar topics. We also had a lot of interest in discussing the role of humanist values in politics.

Can monarchy possibly be compatible with secular democracy and humanist values of equality? Should humanists support republicanism and other progressive political reforms? We explored these questio…

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