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 13

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 4

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.

Russia at the crossroads

Nicolai Petro | 11 September 2007 | comment 3

As it embraces globalisation and capitalism Russia is also rediscovering a pre-1917 religious and cultural heritage that is often at odds with both communism and capitalism.

Mother Teresa’s agony

Richard Umbers | 02 September 2007 | comment 19

Despite her smile and cheerful confidence Mother Teresa felt inner desolation for years. What does this mean?

Is inter-faith dialogue faltering?

Andrew Byrne | 20 August 2007 | comment 27

The culture wars are bad enough. Now the Vatican says that Protestant churches aren't real churches. What's going on?

Do science and rationality support atheism?

Edward Remler | 18 August 2007 | comment 78

No, says a nuclear physicist. To understand why, you must be prepared to face the Fundamental Question of Philosophy: Why is there anything rather than nothing?

Indiana Jones and the prophets of doom

Joe Woodard | 22 June 2007 | comment 6

Fifty years ago two very different historians published books with the same theme -- the emergence of a religion of science.

Why are they throwing brickbats at God?

Margaret Somerville | 01 June 2007 | comment 85

A campaign by eminent atheist Richard Dawkins to discredit religion makes little sense, says a Canadian ethicist.

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