Tagged with non-religious
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Non-religious Pastoral Care Project
We’ve been developing a project to provide pastoral care in hospitals and prisons in New Zealand, for people who are not religious. Our current working group is: Sara Passmore, John Warren, and Peter Edmead. Currently, all chaplaincy in hospitals funded by Te Whatu Ora is delivered by Christian organisations, and fails to meet the needs of a majority of New Zealanders. Without an…
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NZ Census 2023
NZ Census 2023 will ask “what is your religion?” To be counted correctly as non-religious, tick “no religion” and leave the religion details box BLANK It’s important that you take time to answer this question honestly: Census data is used by members of parliament, government, and many other organisations to inform a wide range of important decisions like the amount of public funding…
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Māori Boy Atheist by Eru Hiko-Tahuri
The launch of Eru Hiko-Tahuri’s Māori Boy Atheist was celebrated at Rationalist House in August 2022 Copies are available in English, Māori, or French https://youtu.be/UI_w5Tjj5Xg While non-religious belief began to fully emerge in the nineteenth century, at the same time Christian missionaries invaded the…
