Tuesday, 27 July 2010

A non-religious civil funeral ceremony

Wrexham Council have appointed and trained a council official to arrange and officiate at funerals where deceased or their family want to have a service but do not want to use either a minister of religion or a humanist as officiant.

Read about it here

Saturday, 10 July 2010

A Spiritual Capital approach to values

Although a philosophical rather than a religious approach is taken, American hotelier Chip Conley speaks on Ted.com about reappraising what we value and how we go about valuing things that matter to us most, and its an approach that may well give religious leaders something to think about.

Watch his lecture here