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- Jim Herrick (August 1944 – 20 June 2023) was a British humanist and secularist. He studied history and English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and then worked as a school teacher for seven years. He wrote or edited several books on humanism and the history of freethought.
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Jim Herrick (August 1944 – 20 June 2023) was a British humanist and secularist. He studied history and English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and then worked as a school teacher for seven years. He wrote or edited several books on humanism and the history of freethought.
Jun 22, 2023 · From January 1977 until 1981, Jim edited The Freethinker, the oldest magazine of freethought in the UK. As well as being a devoted member of Humanists UK, Jim Herrick was among the early members of Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association, now known as LGBT Humanists, and also served as its Chair.
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Jun 30, 2023 · Herrick was assistant editor of the Freethinker from October 1975 until he took over as editor in January 1977, a post he held until to August 1981. In 1982, he published Vision and Realism, his centenary history of the magazine.
Humanistically Speaking is very sad to report the death of humanist writer and activist Jim Herrick, who has died in Cambridge at the age of 78. In 1996 he received the Distinguished Humanist Service Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (now Humanists International).
Herrick, an atheist and the author of works on the history of humanism, has written Vision and Realism, a Hundred Years of the Freethinker (1982); Against The Faith (1985), essays on deists, skeptics, and Atheists; and A Humanist Anthology (1995).
Herrick surveys the tradition of humanism as it developed over many centuries, its skepticism toward belief in God and an afterlife, humanist values and arguments for morality outside of a religious framework, its attitude of tolerance toward different lifestyles and belief systems, its endorsement of democratic political principles, its strong ...
