 Conway Hall is home to the South Place
Ethical Society, the world's only surviving 'free thought' organisation. In its
beginning this was a small group of dissenters that felt the need to question
some aspects of religious teaching, particularly the doctrine of an eternal
hell. 200 years of scientific reasoning later, the Society's position today
advocates 'secular humanism' and Conway Hall continues to be a place of
progressive thinking. The hall is named after Moncure Conway, an American
anti-slavery campaigner and staunch believer in free speech. |