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What the Hell? Vatican caught in two minds over damnation for non-believers
Tuesday 28 May 2013
The ‘infallible’ Pope’s proclamation that atheists will go to heaven has led to a rebuke from officials who declared they will go to hell. Jonathan Owen reports on the controversy
Templeton Prize: Desmond Tutu wins a million – so will he follow the Dalai Lama and give it away?
Thursday 04 April 2013
When the Dalai Lama received £1.1m last year from the Templeton Foundation, he did what all good Buddhist monks who have preached against materialism might be expected to do – he gave it away.
Page 3 Profile: Justin Welby, the new Archbishop of Canterbury
Friday 29 March 2013
Any message from the Archbishop this Easter?
Pope Idol: The Pope-pickers could have made things a bit more lively
Wednesday 13 March 2013
John Walsh offers some tips for next time
The God Argument, By AC Grayling
Friday 08 March 2013
Virtuous atheists may live well and do good – but can they give hope to the hopeless cases?
Bath Literature Festival: Believers lose
faith in the role of religion in the classroom
Thursday 07 March 2013
Heard the one about the rabbi, the Muslim, the Christian and the sociologist who all agreed with each other? It’s sound unlikely enough to be a joke but it happened at the Bath Literature Festival when the subject turned to the vexed question of faith schools.
Kevin Garside: Belief in fate and miracles belittles the coach's role
Sunday 23 December 2012
For the Higgs boson believers, and me, Celtic just got lucky against Barcelona
Caring and sharing is not abuse, Professor Dawkins
Sunday 23 December 2012
What Mass, I asked my children yesterday, shall we go to at Christmas? Will it be midnight, that most magical of times? Will it be the 9.30am, when children are dressed as angels? Or will it be the 11am, when the choir fills the church with carols?
Between the Covers 20/05/2012
Sunday 20 May 2012
Your weekly guide to what's really going on inside the world of books
Author Chris McGrath faces six figure legal bill after unfavourable Amazon reviews case is struck out
Wednesday 04 April 2012
An author who tried to sue a father of three from the West Midlands over comments made in a series of unfavourable reviews on Amazon is facing a six figure legal bill after a judge struck out his case.
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Two existential heavyweights in a gentle contest for your very soul
Friday 24 February 2012
Oxford University held its first debate on the subject of evolution in 1860, just months after the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Then, the Bishop of Winchester, Samuel Wilberforce, famously enquired of the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley whether it was through his grandmother or his grandfather that he traced his descent from a monkey.
Mary Ann Sieghart: Thank God for the Church of England
Monday 20 February 2012
The Church of England couldn't hope for a better enemy than Richard Dawkins. Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant, he displays exactly the character traits that could do with some Christian mellowing. In fact, he's almost an advertisement against atheism. You can't help thinking that a few Sundays in the pews and the odd day volunteering in a Church-run soup kitchen might do him the power of good.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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