E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: BBC Radio Suffolk presenter Rachel Sloane is doing a series of features about faiths and philosophies in Suffolk for her Sunday morning programme. She’s been invited to come and meet us and will record her encounter. Please don’t be shy but come prepared to talk about why you’re a Humanist, and what Humanism means to you. In return, Rachel will tell us about her work. We’ll be in Room 1 at Castle Hill Community Centre from 7.

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Tea in Halesworth with members of the Norfolk Humanist group. Email for an invitation and directions.

A group of leading British doctors called today for the NHS to stop using “unproven” complementary treatments such as homeopathy, sparking complaints of “medical apartheid” by proponents of the therapies. Link: Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Top doctors accused of ‘medical apartheid’ It’s reported that ‘groups representing complementary practitioners reacted angrily’ to the call for an end to funding for unproven alternative therapies, but then they would, wouldn’t they?

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: The midsummer social announced for today has been postponed until Saturday, 24th June.

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Summer food, summer music and conversation in summery Suffolk, near Hadleigh. It’s a bring-a-plate tea – everyone brings a plate of food to share. Ask what’s needed. Members and invited guests only. If you want an invite, email us. Members, please email anyway ASAP to let us know you’re coming.

It’s the end of the week again, so it is surely time to postpone whatever it was you were planning on doing and spend the rest of your day getting nicely relaxed for the weekend. If you’re at work we obviously don’t advise misappropriation of company resources to fuel your own amusement when you should be working, but… well, actually we do. Go on. So here’s a summary of some of the best content we’ve found on the web this week… click read more below to find out about the strange religious things people find in their food, blasphemous cartoons, and health warnings for bibles.

For once, an evolutionary biologist and a creationist agree on something. Professor Steve Jones, the author of an updated version of Darwin’s Origin of Species, and John Mackay, an Australian preacher who believes the book of Genesis constitutes literal truth, are both convinced that creationism is making a comeback in British classrooms. Link: Independent Online Edition > Schools It’s difficult to understand how this can happen, but it seems that we need to be vigilant.

A new TV series starts on BBC2 on Friday 26th May at 9pm. Terry Jones promises to expose the truth about the ‘Barbarians’. It seems that the Romans and the Catholic Church gave the Barbarians a reputation they didn’t deserve. Terry Jones pieces together new archaeological evidence to reveal the startling truth about the Barbarians, in the process discovering how the Roman propaganda machine was able to pull off a great con-trick and turn their enemies into monsters fit for children’s stories.

I’ve met quite a few people I’ve come to think of as ‘seekers’. They’re religious people without a religion. They may try out various religions or sects, rejecting each one in turn when they fail to come up to expectations. We even had a C of E rector in our village who’d done this – he’d tried various denominations. The last I heard of him, he was doing missionary work in Africa.