Posted: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 by Terry Sanderson
NSS President, Terry Sanderson, reflects on the hostile reaction from commentators to our challenge to prayers during council meetings.
More information: Blog: A predictable reaction to council prayer challenge
Prayers are personal & shouldn’t be an official part of government business or imposed in meetings
Posted: Fri, 27 Sep 2019
The NSS has welcomed a decision to scrap official prayers at the start of meetings at a council in Somerset.
Posted: Wed, 28 Aug 2019
The NSS has asked councillors in Denbighshire to review their practice of holding prayers before meetings.
Posted: Wed, 17 Jul 2019
The NSS has urged councillors in Norfolk to stop holding prayers before meetings after a councillor tabled a motion to remove them.
Posted: Thu, 06 Jun 2019
The NSS has asked an equalities charity to reconsider its support for prayers at council meetings after remarks from its chief executive....
Posted: Wed, 08 Aug 2018
The NSS has asked the mayor of a Welsh town to ensure prayers are "sufficiently separate" from council meetings and "entirely optional".
As figures show most people in Britain never pray, Megan Manson says institutionalised prayer has no place in our parliament, councils, schools or public ceremonies.
Posted: Tue, 03 Mar 2020
As Brighton's new mayor comes under fire for abolishing prayers at council meetings, Stephen Evans argues that Britain's growing indifference to religion should prompt a rethink of religion's public role....
Posted: Thu, 25 Jul 2019
In recognition of National Democracy Week 2018, Megan Manson reflects on what still needs to be changed to make the UK a truly democratic, secular state.
Posted: Wed, 04 Jul 2018
Claims of ecumenicalism and pluralism are often used to smuggle exclusively Christian privilege into public institutions. Christian secularist Paul Lusk asks what we should do about that.
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Posted: Thu, 12 Oct 2017
Those who regard the imposition of religious values and practices in secular spaces as benign should be more aware of their privilege, argues Alastair Lichten.
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Posted: Tue, 17 Mar 2015