E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Go out and buy carrots. Make soup. Have fun. You’ll see much better in the dark! A silly idea that started on Facebook. Further info: http://www.panicbuyers.co.nr/

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Humanist & Secularist campaigns. A briefing on all the current campaigns that you might contribute to with letters or emails. They include the Scouts’ promise (the Scout Association discriminates against non-religious young people by the requirement to make a promise to God), and the Government policy of handing over welfare and health care to faith-based organisations. We’ll be at the Quaker Meeting House, Church Street, Colchester – near The Mercury Theatre and the water tower.

The first Jedi Church in the UK is to open on Holyhead. Two brothers, who consider themselves Jedi Knights, have decided to set up the church as a meeting point for the 300,000 Britons who claimed Jedi as their religion in the national census in 2003. Faith Central – Times Online – WBLG: Britain to get Jedi Church. May the Force be with them! Tags: Jedi+Church, Star+Wars, Census

Tags: Eh?, You+Tube, Peanut+butter, Evolution

The Jonathan Dimbleby Big Debate – Religion in Schools | Teachers TV. You can either watch the 60 minute video online or download it from the Teachers’ TV website. The synopsis is as follows: Jonathan Dimbleby and a panel of experts come together to debate the controversial subject of religion in Britain’s schools. The role of religion in education is a subject rarely out of the headlines. Despite Britain’s multi-faith society, schools are still required to include a collective act of worship of a Christian nature, while faith schools and religious academies have raised fears about community cohesion and covert selection.

The UK government is planning to review the law on ‘collective worship’ in state schools. It is compulsory – indeed more compulsory in the letter than in the usual practice; and teachers must, however wearily, devise a ‘broadly Christian’ message for the whole school. Faith Central – Times Online – WBLG: School Assembly revamp. Click the link above to read more. Tags: Schools, Education, Assemblies, School+assemblies

Amongst other things, Huckabee is a Creationist. Scary! Tags: You+Tube, America, Religion, Evangelicals, Huckabee, Republicans

The Jan/Feb issue of New Humanist is out now and packed with new year goodies. In a natural history special Laurie Taylor interviews David Attenborough, and we ask four scientific experts what they would like to talk to Darwin about if he happened to invite them for dinner. Plus brilliant pieces on the UK Government’s Muslim policy (Dave Rich says they are finally getting it right), the need for luxury, the return of torture as policy and the great photographers EO Hopp and Don McCullin.

Tickets are still available for the 2008 BHA Darwin Day Lecture, to be chaired by Richard Dawkins and given by Tim Lewens. Tickets are available by telephoning the BHA on 020 7079 3580 and cost £5 for BHA members and £7.50 for non-members. See our events calendar for details. Tags: Darwin+Day, lecture, Richard+Dawkins, Tim+Lewens

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Tickets are still available for the 2008 BHA Darwin Day Lecture, to be chaired by Richard Dawkins and given by Tim Lewens. Tickets are available by telephoning the BHA on 020 7079 3580 and cost 5 for BHA members and 7.50 for non-members. Email the BHA for more information – info@humanism.org.uk Tim Lewens on Charles Darwin: a philosophical naturalist Chair: Professor Richard Dawkins The Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College, London, Gower Street, WC1