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| 22/02/2012 09:34:11 | 25/02/2012 09:34:11 | Jane Williams | 199 | 1 | ||
| Lent is a chance to take stock and imagine a changed world | ||||||
| Private spiritual discipline during Lent means little without the desire to transform the world for the good of all | View Comments | |||||
| 21/02/2012 16:50:20 | 24/02/2012 16:50:20 | Sahar Aziz | 142 | 0 | ||
| Racial profiling by law enforcement is poisoning Muslim Americans' trust | ||||||
| By using 'community outreach' to spy on citizens, counter-terror agencies are wrecking their most valuable asset: good will | View Comments | |||||
| 20/02/2012 09:59:01 | 23/02/2012 09:59:01 | Tina Beattie | 363 | 1 | ||
| Thomas Aquinas, part 4: how did the world begin? | ||||||
| Aquinas's understanding of our origins combines Aristotelian and Platonic cosmologies with the biblical account of creation | View Comments | |||||
| 17/02/2012 18:00:48 | 20/02/2012 18:00:48 | Tehmina Kazi | 286 | 5 | ||
| Those who threaten 'Twitter blasphemy' writer Hamza Kashgari should stop and remember what Islam is for | ||||||
| Islam is not a sword or shield for the global political stage, but a belief system designed to purify the human heart | View Comments | |||||
| 16/02/2012 12:49:34 | 19/02/2012 12:49:34 | Andrew Brown | 820 | 28 | ||
| Militant secularists fail to understand the rules of secular debate | ||||||
| Angry nonbelievers assume 'the religious' have no access to reason – so all they do is repeat themselves, loudly | View Comments | |||||
| 16/02/2012 08:59:01 | 19/02/2012 08:59:01 | Julian Baggini | 361 | 2 | ||
| 'A secular state must be neutral' - “ what does that mean exactly? | ||||||
| A healthy secular society must allow for a plurality of ways of living – but these must never compromise the common good | View Comments | |||||
| 15/02/2012 09:00:01 | 18/02/2012 09:00:01 | Andrew Brown | 394 | 6 | ||
| The bloodlust faced by the 'blaspheming' Saudi journalist | ||||||
| Hamza Kashgari's tweets about Muhammad have led to a chilling online reaction from many in Saudi Arabia | View Comments | |||||
| 14/02/2012 20:30:01 | 17/02/2012 20:30:01 | Linda Woodhead | 707 | 5 | ||
| Richard Dawkins has uncovered a very British form of Christianity | ||||||
| British people view Christianity as a part of their culture, as well as a religion. But lack of strict faith doesn't make us secularists | View Comments | |||||
| 14/02/2012 18:32:36 | 17/02/2012 18:32:36 | Giles Fraser | 826 | 0 | ||
| Richard Dawkins and Lady Warsi should live and let live | ||||||
| There's a reason why Britain has a tradition of tolerance about religion, and we risk it at our peril | View Comments | |||||
| 14/02/2012 14:47:29 | 17/02/2012 14:47:29 | Mark Vernon | 22 | 0 | ||
| Love in the shadow of Eros's deepest longings | ||||||
| On Valentine's Day, what can religious imagery such as Indian ragamala tell us about affairs of the human heart? | View Comments | |||||
| 13/02/2012 15:24:07 | 16/02/2012 15:24:07 | Tina Beattie | 394 | 1 | ||
| Thomas Aquinas, part 3: scripture, reason and the being of God | ||||||
| For Aquinas, the being of God is better understood as a verb than a noun – a dynamism that sustains all creation | View Comments | |||||
| 13/02/2012 11:30:59 | 16/02/2012 11:30:59 | Jonathan Chaplin | 459 | 2 | ||
| Why the Bideford ruling on council prayers is a setback for secularism | ||||||
| The National Secular Society tries to manipulate the principle of non-discrimination to bring religion to heel. It didn't work here | View Comments | |||||
| 12/02/2012 14:00:01 | 15/02/2012 14:00:01 | Katherine Stewart | 1338 | 5 | ||
| The new anti-science assault on US schools | ||||||
| In a disturbing trend, anti-evolution campaigners are combining with climate change deniers to undermine public education | View Comments | |||||
| 11/02/2012 10:00:01 | 14/02/2012 10:00:01 | Steve Parish | 92 | 0 | ||
| Female bishops and an exercise in diplomacy | ||||||
| If some clergy have a problem swearing obedience to a female bishop, perhaps the oath should be done away with all together | View Comments | |||||
| 10/02/2012 19:22:51 | 13/02/2012 19:22:51 | Philip Ball | 342 | 0 | ||
| Even atheists must recognise the importance of a sociological study of religion | ||||||
| An apparent lack of interest in how religion propagates in society is odd coming from people who so deplore its prevalence | View Comments | |||||
| 10/02/2012 15:11:21 | 13/02/2012 15:11:21 | Maureen Fiedler | 415 | 0 | ||
| An answer to Catholics' birth control and healthcare law conundrum | ||||||
| The White House has a tough task reconciling religious freedom with healthcare reform. The ideal solution? A single-payer plan | View Comments | |||||
| 10/02/2012 14:08:10 | 13/02/2012 14:08:10 | Giles Fraser | 547 | 0 | ||
| Banning council prayer sessions is just the start - “ what about parliament? | ||||||
| The ruling that Bideford council has no power to hold prayers shows disestablishment may be possible from the ground up | View Comments | |||||
| 09/02/2012 19:15:01 | 12/02/2012 19:15:01 | Tresa Edmunds | 192 | 2 | ||
| It's time for Mormons to accept gay marriage | ||||||
| Our Mormon ancestors were persecuted for their own views on marriage – we should now stop supporting Proposition 8 | View Comments | |||||
| 09/02/2012 17:05:34 | 12/02/2012 17:05:34 | Amy Goodman | 125 | 0 | ||
| America's pro-choice majority | ||||||
| The US doesn't need a new 'culture war' that will only benefit Republicans like Rick Santorum. Most Americans are pro-choice | View Comments | |||||
| 09/02/2012 12:05:01 | 12/02/2012 12:05:01 | Julian Baggini | 497 | 0 | ||
| Can a religion survive being stripped of its superstitions? | ||||||
| Removing a religion's supernatural core is a revealing exercise, especially when applied to the supposedly 'godless' Buddhism | View Comments | |||||
| 09/02/2012 08:00:02 | 12/02/2012 08:00:02 | Ali Khan | 57 | 2 | ||
| India's sacred spaces are tapestries of culture | ||||||
| Shrines can serve as unique 'binding' social institutions, bringing people of different faiths together not out of toleration but respect | View Comments | |||||
| 07/02/2012 16:30:32 | 10/02/2012 16:30:32 | Harry J Enten | 108 | 1 | ||
| Can Mitt Romney seal the deal with the Christian right? | ||||||
| Missouri's primary seems a minor stopover in the GOP race, but it may show if, crucially, Romney can woo evangelical voters | View Comments | |||||
| 07/02/2012 13:25:01 | 10/02/2012 13:25:01 | Luis Hernández Navarro | 63 | 0 | ||
| Presidential nominee resurrects a holy ghost of Mexico's past | ||||||
| With the support of ultra-right Catholics, Josefina Vázquez Mota is a divisive figure who uses controversial tactics | View Comments | |||||
| 07/02/2012 09:00:02 | 10/02/2012 09:00:02 | Lesley Chamberlain | 254 | 0 | ||
| The political message of Nietzsche's 'God is dead' | ||||||
| Nietzsche's declaration was not an atheist broadside in today's context, but an attack on the link between reason and divinity | View Comments | |||||
| 06/02/2012 17:40:01 | 09/02/2012 17:40:01 | Andrew Brown | 227 | 0 | ||
| General Synod: the perfect forum for Anglicans who want to avoid decisions | ||||||
| Women bishops, collapsing church attendances – it's issues like these that synod won't be dealing with this week | View Comments | |||||
| 06/02/2012 12:00:02 | 09/02/2012 12:00:02 | Tina Beattie | 201 | 2 | ||
| Thomas Aquinas, part 2: the mind as soul | ||||||
| Aquinas was born to a world in which humans were part of an enchanted, magical universe – a world he helped bring down | View Comments | |||||
| 05/02/2012 20:10:01 | 08/02/2012 20:10:01 | Giles Fraser | 765 | 2 | ||
| Nietzsche's passionate atheism was the making of me | ||||||
| Nietzsche's pious lack of faith led to my own conversion to Christianity | View Comments | |||||
| 03/02/2012 19:00:01 | 06/02/2012 19:00:01 | Nick Spencer | 198 | 0 | ||
| Suppose we really treated sport as a religion. What would we say? | ||||||
| In a liberal and tolerant society like ours there is no place for the divisive tribalism of the football terraces | View Comments | |||||
| 03/02/2012 13:15:04 | 06/02/2012 13:15:04 | Rodge Glass | 257 | 20 | ||
| Manchester's antisemitic attacks: no simple answers but one simple fact | ||||||
| Trying to explain geographical or year-on-year quirks distracts us from the key point: antisemitism's very presence in Britain | View Comments | |||||
| 02/02/2012 18:30:01 | 05/02/2012 18:30:01 | John Gray | 382 | 7 | ||
| Alain de Botton's atheist temple is a nice idea, but a defunct one | ||||||
| De Botton's atheist temple call does not need to be realised – our existing places of worship can be appreciated by all | View Comments | |||||
| 02/02/2012 15:21:23 | 05/02/2012 15:21:23 | Andrew Brown | 266 | 3 | ||
| Anglican Mainstream and the enemies of Christianity | ||||||
| The anti-gay group deserves the censure it has received – unlike a small Evangelical Christian group in Bath | View Comments | |||||
| 02/02/2012 14:34:59 | 05/02/2012 14:34:59 | Guardian | 214 | 3 | ||
| Not card-carrying Catholic? Tell us what would go on your card instead | ||||||
| A Muslim, a humanist and an Anglican gave us their equivalent of the card printed up for Catholics. Over to you | View Comments | |||||
| 02/02/2012 12:51:00 | 05/02/2012 12:51:00 | Julian Baggini | 294 | 0 | ||
| Religion's dysfunctional 'families' need therapists, not wreckers | ||||||
| Rather than try to root out a false belief, atheist critics should examine the role and influence of each element of a religion | View Comments | |||||
| 01/02/2012 15:41:07 | 04/02/2012 15:41:07 | Brian Conway | 465 | 0 | ||
| Knowing the Other through prayer | ||||||
| We are impoverished when we discount the evidence of our own experience merely because it is not 'scientific' | View Comments | |||||
| 31/01/2012 16:32:20 | 03/02/2012 16:32:20 | Liz Williams | 250 | 0 | ||
| Archaeologists and pagans alike glory in the Brodgar complex | ||||||
| Let's not jump to conclusions about ritual significance, but this site is clearly immensely important to ancient British history | View Comments | |||||
| 30/01/2012 17:00:05 | 02/02/2012 17:00:05 | Tina Beattie | 475 | 0 | ||
| Thomas Aquinas, part 1: rediscovering a father of modernity | ||||||
| Thomas Aquinas was the greatest philosopher of the Christian middle ages. So what can he teach us that we have forgotten? | View Comments | |||||
| 30/01/2012 14:00:01 | 02/02/2012 14:00:01 | Nick Spencer | 204 | 1 | ||
| How do we re-moralise our society? | ||||||
| So we are less honest than a decade ago. No wonder, we've shed the familial, community and economic links that moralise us | View Comments | |||||
| 30/01/2012 11:00:03 | 02/02/2012 11:00:03 | Andrew Brown | 936 | 11 | ||
| John Sentamu's argument against gay marriage is already lost | ||||||
| The archbishop of York must understand we are not facing a 'dictatorship' on gay marriage but a change in popular morality | View Comments | |||||
| 29/01/2012 20:00:03 | 01/02/2012 20:00:03 | Guardian | 27 | 0 | ||
| Giles Fraser: 'How can I think clearly in the Guardian's office?' | ||||||
| The former canon chancellor of St Paul's cathedral has joined this newspaper to do a weekly podcast. But he is finding the frenzied atmosphere challenging | View Comments | |||||
| 29/01/2012 14:00:01 | 01/02/2012 14:00:01 | Kristin Aune | 232 | 0 | ||
| Feminists can be Christians, too | ||||||
| Why do people assume any woman who has something interesting to say must be an atheist? | View Comments | |||||
| 29/01/2012 00:07:16 | 01/02/2012 00:07:16 | Victoria Coren | 361 | 1 | ||
| Attacking the church is a cheap shot | ||||||
| Has everyone forgotten these are men of God? It's actually their job to stand up for the poor | View Comments | |||||
| 28/01/2012 12:00:02 | 31/01/2012 12:00:02 | Mark Vernon | 462 | 2 | ||
| It's time for science to move on from materialism | ||||||
| The rigid 19th-century orthodoxy should be challenged to allow broader interpretations, as Rupert Sheldrake argues | View Comments | |||||
| 27/01/2012 18:00:02 | 30/01/2012 18:00:02 | Jonathan Bartley | 227 | 4 | ||
| 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 | 300 | 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 | 230 | 7 | ||
| 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 | 544 | 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 | 168 | 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 | 738 | 4 | ||
| 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 | 64 | 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 | 270 | 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 | 115 | 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 | 368 | 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 | 252 | 4 | ||
| 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 | 75 | 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 | 733 | 17 | ||
| 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 | 395 | 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 | 547 | 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 | 35 | 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 | 289 | 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 | |||||