religion

Lapsed Agnostic

Brenda McGann | 30 January 2008 | comment 6

A modern Irishman struggles to make sense of his boyhood faith again and succeeds.

The faith of the Irish

Seamus Grimes | 30 January 2008 | comment 4

Secularization is taking its toll in newly-prosperous Ireland but there are young voices speaking up again for the old values.

Message in a bottle to a weary world

Robert A. Gahl, Jr | 15 December 2007 | comment 15

The hope offered by Christianity can transform the world, says the Pope in his second encyclical letter.

Tough questions for Mitt Romney

Matthew Mehan | 06 December 2007 | comment 60

Can the presidential hopeful assure Americans that his position on fundamental issues will not change?

Mind and soul

Aaron Kheriaty | 29 November 2007 | comment 13

Psychiatry has typically shunned religion, but a unique forum at one university has them talking to each other - for the sake of the patient.

Light and dark in The Golden Compass

Tim Golden | 26 November 2007 | comment 24

An upcoming children's film, The Golden Compass, is based on a trilogy which is highly critical of Christianity.

A modest proposal

Shamim Hunt | 10 November 2007 | comment 20

Wearing the hijab does not necessarily protect Muslim women or guarantee their dignity. 

After fatalism, Japan opens to faith

Jennifer Van House Hutcheson | 18 October 2007 | comment 12

Nearly 500 years since Christianity won its first adherents in Japan, conversions are increasing again.

Atheism becomes fashionable

Richard Bastien | 16 October 2007 | comment 62

Passionate tracts by the new missionaries of unbelief are selling like hotcakes. But are they rational?

How literature reveals intelligent design

William Park | 12 October 2007 | comment 11

A literary critic discerns pointers towards the transcendent in great works of imagination.

How the West might find God again

Mary Eberstadt | 08 October 2007 | comment 35

It is assumed that the West turned against religion and then lost interest in marriage and children - but there is evidence that the reverse could also be true.

The ultimate miserabilist

Michael Cook | 02 October 2007 | comment 30

Just when you thought philosophers couldn't get any more pessimistic, one of them surprises you. 

Challenging the prejudice of materialism

Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary | 29 September 2007 | comment 3

A journalist and a neuroscientist maintain that morality and spirituality are more than electrical impulses in the brain.

Fear religion: CNN’s message to the nation

Sheila Gribben Liaugminas | 26 September 2007 | comment 42

Christiane Amanpour had a clear message in her three-part series on CNN: worshipping God creates scary people.

Religion can build, as well as destroy, in Iraq

Tristan Abbey | 13 September 2007 | comment 2

Security expert Robert McFarlane thinks that it is possible to bring Shia and Sunni imams together to talk about peace.

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