Guest Post

28 posts

Halfway Around the World and it Feels Like Home

Recently, Jeff Sargeant from Sunday Assembly Los Angeles took trip around three UK Sunday Assemblies. We asked him to write a blog about his experiences. Take it away, Jeff! When I found I had enough credit card miles for a free plane ticket, I didn’t hesitate on where I where I […]

M is for Meaning

Today we are introducing the fourth in a five part series of blog posts from Anita Marsden – Clinical Psychologist, lover of life and member of Sunday Assembly Brighton’s organising committee. We are continuing our blog series with meaning. In the PERMA model meaning is all about engaging with something greater […]

R is for Relationships

Today we are introducing the third in a five part series of blog posts from Anita Marsden – Clinical Psychologist, lover of life and member of Sunday Assembly Brighton’s organising committee. Just imagine yourself for a moment. You are home alone, it’s 4am in the morning and something is wrong. You […]

E is for Engagement

Today we are introducing the second in a five part series of blog posts from Anita Marsden – Clinical Psychologist, lover of life, member of Sunday Assembly Brighton’s organising committee, and one of the founders of A Festival Called WONDER. This week I’m not going to be instructing you all to […]

Knowing We Must Die, How Then Shall We Live?

Another blogpost from the excellent Casper Ter Kuile As part of my education to become a minister for non-religious people, I’ll work in a hospital as a chaplain for three months. It’s the part of my training I’m both most excited and nervous about.  Chaplains can be called into all […]

Choosing A Story To Believe In

Part of a series of blogposts on secular community by the excellent Casper Ter Kuile – thanks Casper! One of the things I’ve always slightly envied about my Muslim, Jewish and Christian classmates in Divinity School is the fact that they have a holy text. A book to which they […]

Personal Practice Is The Backbone of Community

Casper ter Kuile is training to be a minister for non-religious people at the Harvard Divinity School. He’s the host of Living The Questions, a podcast exploring questions that matter. Every morning I creep out of bed and sit down on a cushion in our coat closet. It’s the only […]

True Belonging: Families In Community

Casper ter Kuile is training to be a minister for non-religious people at the Harvard Divinity School. He’s the host of Living The Questions, a podcast exploring questions that matter. True community is always intergenerational. When I walk into a gathering where there are children running around and old people […]

People That Sing Together….

We’d like to introduce a new voice onto the Sunday Assembly site – Casper ter Kuile. Casper will be writing a series of posts for us in the run up to A Conference Called Wonder (tickets here btw) each one exploring a different aspect of secular community building. The series kicks off with […]