Sir – Four weeks ago, the City Rector, Bob Wilkes, and I tried, through your columns, to increase the number of local people joining Oxford’s predominantly religious Service of Remembrance.

My objective, today, is still to increase the participation of your readers but, this time, by encouraging people — of all faiths or none — to see if they would enjoy the added freedom of thought and expression engendered during a typical non-religious “Sunday Assembly”.

Indeed, Oxford's Sunday Assembly organisers seem deliberately to have chosen widely different themes for their events — as if to complement what might be offered during equivalent religious services.

And they do, indeed, seek to attract thoughtful people regardless of their religious persuasions.

Thus, for the inaugural “Assembly”, five weeks ago, the guest speaker was Mark Leonard of the Oxford Mindfulness Institute and co-founder of the Mindfulness Exchange (www.mindfulness-exchange.com). And, for this coming Sunday, the focus will be “Community” with Daniel Becton, of Project Ubuntu, as the guest speaker.

The word “Ubuntu” seems to have been coined, by southern African philosophers some 150-plus years ago, to mean something like ‘humanity’ or ‘humanism’ and Daniel embarked on a 51-week trek to 50 community projects through all 50 US states, to amplify what he means by it.

The Sunday Assembly motto is “Live better, help often and wonder more”, their next meeting begins, at 11am in the Old Fire Station Theatre on Sunday, December 1, and is free. But please register in advance: http://saoxford01-erelexporg.eventbrite.co.uk

John D White, Chairman, Oxford Humanists, Chalgrove