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| 27/01/2012 18:00:02 | 30/01/2012 18:00:02 | Jonathan Bartley | 189 | 3 | ||
| Capitalism only creates misery – we need a system that puts human wellbeing first | ||||||
| It is the Green party that now embodies the natural political expression of the more progressive traditions found in dissenting movements such as Quakerism and radical Catholicism | View Comments | |||||
| 27/01/2012 17:28:50 | 30/01/2012 17:28:50 | Andrew Brown | 139 | 3 | ||
| Why are people friendly? | ||||||
| Without selection between competing groups, the advantages of co-operation are not great enough to make it spread | View Comments | |||||
| 27/01/2012 11:11:01 | 30/01/2012 11:11:01 | Shenaz Kermali | 162 | 5 | ||
| The Hajj exhibition is in stark contrast to Saudi Arabia's cultural vandalism | ||||||
| The Saudi elite are proud of the British Museum's Hajj exhibition – it's a shame they don't feel the same about all their heritage | View Comments | |||||
| 27/01/2012 10:25:12 | 30/01/2012 10:25:12 | Guardian | 412 | 0 | ||
| Do atheists need a temple? | ||||||
| The philosopher and writer Alain de Botton wants to build a £1m temple in the city of London to celebrate life on earth. Do you think atheists need their own templ | View Comments | |||||
| 26/01/2012 19:30:01 | 29/01/2012 19:30:01 | Meghan O'Rourke | 151 | 1 | ||
| Grief – the great universal | ||||||
| Nothing unites a community more than the death of a loved one. Yet we often feel the need to shoulder our sorrows alone | View Comments | |||||
| 26/01/2012 15:30:01 | 29/01/2012 15:30:01 | Julian Baggini | 659 | 2 | ||
| The modern believer is not suspicious enough | ||||||
| Mark Vernon argues that we must always know more than we can express, but this is no excuse for expressing things we cannot know | View Comments | |||||
| 26/01/2012 12:26:49 | 29/01/2012 12:26:49 | Adrian Pabst | 61 | 1 | ||
| Leaders at Davos could do with some religious instruction | ||||||
| Capitalism may look like a poor imitation of a religion, but its reduction of everything to monetary worth is a dangerous creed | View Comments | |||||
| 26/01/2012 09:00:03 | 29/01/2012 09:00:03 | David Shariatmadari | 258 | 8 | ||
| Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | ||||||
| The pope warns of radical secularism; storm grows over closure of Ireland's Vatican embassy; Gaudi inspires Catholic conversion | View Comments | |||||
| 25/01/2012 14:29:20 | 28/01/2012 14:29:20 | Andrew Samuels | 112 | 0 | ||
| This could be Carl Jung's century | ||||||
| The psychoanalyst saw himself as a sort of therapist for western culture, and his diagnosis of its ills resonates today | View Comments | |||||
| 25/01/2012 12:43:30 | 28/01/2012 12:43:30 | Becky Garrison | 111 | 3 | ||
| Fighting famine in Africa with the help of faith communities | ||||||
| The common goal of love of God and love of neighbour in the Abrahamic faiths is a strong bond in tackling crises in Africa | View Comments | |||||
| 25/01/2012 11:30:20 | 28/01/2012 11:30:20 | Kate Harding | 841 | 20 | ||
| Rick Santorum thinks pregnancy through rape is God's gift? Seriously? | ||||||
| Invoking God's will as a supporting argument to his position on abortion hardly fits with the constitution he claims to uphold | View Comments | |||||
| 24/01/2012 11:58:54 | 27/01/2012 11:58:54 | Andrew Brown | 360 | 7 | ||
| The Church of England's fudge on female bishops is breathtaking | ||||||
| In attempting to mollify opponents of female bishops, the House of Bishops has simply nourished the resistance | View Comments | |||||
| 23/01/2012 21:00:08 | 26/01/2012 21:00:08 | Giles Fraser | 177 | 8 | ||
| Courage: a product of practice rather than faith | ||||||
| The question of moral courage – and whether you can get better at it – has stayed with me ever since I was shot at by Israelis | View Comments | |||||
| 23/01/2012 17:15:01 | 26/01/2012 17:15:01 | Andrew Brown | 246 | 3 | ||
| This welfare bill has united bishops like never before | ||||||
| Bishops in the Lords can seem fantastically out of touch, but they have more awareness of poverty than most in the chamber | View Comments | |||||
| 23/01/2012 15:30:01 | 26/01/2012 15:30:01 | Jessica Martin | 73 | 0 | ||
| John Milton, part 8: Adam and Eve find in loss a new paradise glimpsed | ||||||
| In the last in our Paradise Lost series, Adam and Eve, deaf now to God, wander into a world of death, love and distant hope | View Comments | |||||
| 21/01/2012 14:00:01 | 24/01/2012 14:00:01 | Debbie Codd | 147 | 2 | ||
| Why more people are saying 'I do' to a church wedding | ||||||
| From the reassurance of tradition to royal nuptials, there are many reasons for the rise in couples tying the knot in church | View Comments | |||||
| 21/01/2012 11:00:01 | 24/01/2012 11:00:01 | Sara Khorshid | 196 | 15 | ||
| The problem with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is not sharia | ||||||
| Western media simplistically cast the divide between revolutionaries and the Brotherhood in secular-Islamist terms | View Comments | |||||
| 20/01/2012 15:00:02 | 23/01/2012 15:00:02 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | 527 | 13 | ||
| Compulsory celibacy is wrong and damaging for all clergy – straight or gay | ||||||
| Not everyone called to the priesthood is also called to celibacy | View Comments | |||||
| 20/01/2012 10:00:02 | 23/01/2012 10:00:02 | Alain de Botton | 242 | 4 | ||
| Should art really be for its own sake alone? | ||||||
| If art museums are the new churches, perhaps they should end the veneration of ambiguity and start serving our inner needs | View Comments | |||||
| 19/01/2012 16:12:36 | 22/01/2012 16:12:36 | Jonathan Bartley | 196 | 2 | ||
| 'Responsible capitalism' is a cop out | ||||||
| While David Cameron and Ed Miliband continue to support relentless growth, the inequalities of the system will prosper | View Comments | |||||
| 19/01/2012 14:30:01 | 22/01/2012 14:30:01 | Julian Baggini | 718 | 5 | ||
| Struggling with the question of belief? Homer Simpson's got the answer | ||||||
| The Springfield philosopher shows us that the issue of God's existence or non-existence is of little importance | View Comments | |||||
| 19/01/2012 12:34:33 | 22/01/2012 12:34:33 | David Shariatmadari | 94 | 2 | ||
| Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | ||||||
| Jeffrey John and gay clergy | Jews of Jerusalem | Dutch Queen Beatrix wears a headscarf | Ron Paul's Muslim fanbase | View Comments | |||||
| 18/01/2012 16:00:01 | 21/01/2012 16:00:01 | Syma Mohammed | 595 | 10 | ||
| Why British Muslim women struggle to find a marriage partner | ||||||
| Older, unmarried female Muslims outnumber their male counterparts for many reasons. Fussiness is not one of them | View Comments | |||||
| 17/01/2012 12:30:01 | 20/01/2012 12:30:01 | Alex Slater | 96 | 0 | ||
| Mitt Romney's problem with evangelicals | ||||||
| Or rather, evangelical Christians' problem with Romney as a Mormon may mean he will miss a vital bloc of Republican voters | View Comments | |||||
| 17/01/2012 12:19:26 | 20/01/2012 12:19:26 | Mark Vernon | 387 | 0 | ||
| Faith that is known first in the body | ||||||
| Activity such as prayer should not be quarantined by interpreting it as of strictly aesthetic or instrumental merit | View Comments | |||||
| 16/01/2012 22:00:01 | 19/01/2012 22:00:01 | Tanya Gold | 536 | 32 | ||
| LSE Nazi games in context | ||||||
| Antisemitic discourse is more acceptable now than at any time since the 1930s. I just can't laugh it off | View Comments | |||||
| 16/01/2012 17:02:44 | 19/01/2012 17:02:44 | Kevin Powell | 34 | 0 | ||
| Martin Luther King Jr's universal message | ||||||
| That Dr King fought not just for civil rights for African Americans but for social justice for all keeps his mission compellingly alive | View Comments | |||||
| 16/01/2012 15:52:05 | 19/01/2012 15:52:05 | Andrew Brown | 689 | 5 | ||
| Why is this gay cleric considering suing the church if he won't win? | ||||||
| Jeffrey John is reportedly planning a discrimination suit unless he is made a bishop. It will at least fly the flag for liberalism | View Comments | |||||
| 16/01/2012 10:19:03 | 19/01/2012 10:19:03 | Jessica Martin | 46 | 1 | ||
| John Milton, part 7: Adam, Eve and partnership | ||||||
| Milton's view of marriage as partnership gives Eve a prominence that works against the misogyny of the tradition he uses | View Comments | |||||
| 15/01/2012 14:59:01 | 18/01/2012 14:59:01 | Andrew Brown | 992 | 18 | ||
| Why I shouldn't have been upset about the reporting on the pope's speech | ||||||
| The pope didn't mention gay marriage per se, but Vatican reporter Philip Pullella dissects the church's message | View Comments | |||||
| 13/01/2012 19:00:01 | 16/01/2012 19:00:01 | Tehmina Kazi | 258 | 4 | ||
| Redefining Islam for the 21st century | ||||||
| Progressive activists in the 'critical Muslim' movement are growing in strength and number | View Comments | |||||
| 12/01/2012 07:59:01 | 15/01/2012 07:59:01 | Julian Baggini | 1150 | 6 | ||
| You don't have to be religious to pray … but it helps | ||||||
| Religious rituals can provide real benefits, but try to separate them from the beliefs and they lose their potency and grip | View Comments | |||||
| 11/01/2012 19:00:01 | 14/01/2012 19:00:01 | Jenny Taylor | 81 | 2 | ||
| Salman Rushdie and the Deobandi school of thought | ||||||
| The seminary that has called for Salman Rushdie to be banned from India has a long history of opposition to British colonialism | View Comments | |||||
| 11/01/2012 13:00:21 | 14/01/2012 13:00:21 | David Shariatmadari | 109 | 0 | ||
| Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | ||||||
| Pope John Paul II's 'excessively spherical' head; Lutfur Rahman praises Prince Charles; Mitt Romney and the Mormon musical | View Comments | |||||
| 11/01/2012 11:32:57 | 14/01/2012 11:32:57 | Andrew Brown | 469 | 15 | ||
| Yes the pope is Catholic. But he didn't say gay marriage threatens humanity | ||||||
| Pope Benedict XVI said a lot about environmentalism and economics in his speech, so why make up another story? | View Comments | |||||
| 10/01/2012 09:00:11 | 13/01/2012 09:00:11 | Andrew Brown | 529 | 39 | ||
| My parents' racism taught me to beware jeering catchphrases | ||||||
| Like my parents' use of the phrase 'our coloured brethren', Islam is only ever called 'the religion of peace' in bad faith | View Comments | |||||
| 09/01/2012 12:36:12 | 12/01/2012 12:36:12 | Jessica Martin | 718 | 17 | ||
| John Milton, part 6: of course the poet can't justify God | ||||||
| Milton can't turn God into a character. But he can show Adam and Eve encountering God through love and sacrifice | View Comments | |||||
| 06/01/2012 18:00:01 | 09/01/2012 18:00:01 | Paul Handley | 289 | 6 | ||
| Imagine there's no simplistic religious imagery… | ||||||
| By changing the lyrics of Imagine, Cee Lo Green helped make clear that John Lennon's biggest hit is tosh | View Comments | |||||
| 06/01/2012 15:38:42 | 09/01/2012 15:38:42 | Sophia Deboick | 257 | 1 | ||
| The Vatican's problem with fathers who are fathers | ||||||
| Gabino Zavala is far from being the first priest with children – the Catholic church has struggled with celibacy for centuries | View Comments | |||||
| 05/01/2012 17:51:29 | 08/01/2012 17:51:29 | Peter Beaumont | 229 | 2 | ||
| Rick Santorum: bearer of the Christianist mantle | ||||||
| Santorum has gone far beyond other Republican candidates in his desire to enshrine his values in the constitution | View Comments | |||||
| 05/01/2012 16:36:44 | 08/01/2012 16:36:44 | Becky Garrison | 31 | 0 | ||
| From Rick Santorum to Ted Haggard, reality TV answers celebrity prayers | ||||||
| Ted Haggard and Gary Busey's bid for redemption via Celebrity Wife Swap highlights the genre's significance in Christian circles | View Comments | |||||
| 05/01/2012 10:00:01 | 08/01/2012 10:00:01 | Andrew Brown | 219 | 1 | ||
| Assisted suicide is never an autonomous choice | ||||||
| There are many who consider their lives no longer worth living. Yet it's fraudulent to ignore the part we all play in those feelings | View Comments | |||||
| 05/01/2012 09:00:04 | 08/01/2012 09:00:04 | Julian Baggini | 808 | 0 | ||
| Can it be rational for the religious to be non-rational? | ||||||
| Bypassing it with a leap of faith is problematic, but there's a serious debate to be had about rationality's limits | View Comments | |||||
| 04/01/2012 12:45:35 | 07/01/2012 12:45:35 | Remi Adekoya | 105 | 5 | ||
| Nigeria's Islamists have the government dancing to their tune | ||||||
| A state of emergency will do nothing unless Goodluck Jonathan faces up to the political backers of Boko Haram's terrorists | View Comments | |||||
| 24/12/2011 09:07:10 | 27/12/2011 09:07:10 | Jonathan Freedland | 751 | 31 | ||
| The story of Jesus is the ultimate political drama | ||||||
| I shouldn't be interested in the life of Jesus, but I can't help it – his story makes for gripping entertainment | View Comments | |||||
| 23/12/2011 14:00:02 | 26/12/2011 14:00:02 | Andrew Brown | 194 | 1 | ||
| Taking a chance on prayer via text | ||||||
| About 30 Christians near Wakefield have an arrangement where they can text each other prayer support – and why not? | View Comments | |||||
| 22/12/2011 11:01:03 | 25/12/2011 11:01:03 | Julian Baggini | 593 | 5 | ||
| Heathen's progress so far – has the God debate been moved on? | ||||||
| We've addressed procedural points and grappled with the role of literal belief in religion. But tell me if this adds up to progress | View Comments | |||||
| 20/12/2011 18:30:17 | 23/12/2011 18:30:17 | Eddie Arthur | 436 | 22 | ||
| The Bible should be available to read in every Christian's native language | ||||||
| As an adviser who helped create a New Testament translation for an Ivorian village, I saw what an impact such work can have | View Comments | |||||
| 18/12/2011 19:00:02 | 21/12/2011 19:00:02 | David Edgar | 283 | 1 | ||
| We can't allow the Bible to be hijacked for narrow and partisan politics | ||||||
| Cameron's use of the King James to oppose multiculturalism is an attempt to reverse one of its greatest legacies | View Comments | |||||