Giving recognition to aspects of sharia, as suggested by the Archbishop of Canterbury, would damage the principle of equality before the law.
Secularization is taking its toll in newly-prosperous Ireland but there are young voices speaking up again for the old values.
With the tightest race for years in the US presidential primaries, opinion polls have become more important than ever. Can they be trusted?
The globalisation of soccer has made the game both more beautiful and more ugly, says one of the world's leading sports writers.
Chimps can paint, use tools and show affection. So what makes them different from us?
A former rock music journalist has created a stir with her renunciation of sex-in-the-city and a manifesto on chastity.
The economy is booming but Australians are far from happy about what is happening to their family and community life.
A family scholar explains why he - reluctantly - had to write about what is wrong with same sex marriage.
A Canadian woman was raised in an unconventional household. Now she tells her story.
Harvard University has given the cause of therapeutic cloning the backing of its immense prestige. A stem cell scientist tells MercatorNet that this is based on inflated hopes and bad science.
Young people seeking a focus for their idealism increasingly find that a spell of volunteering in a developing country helps.
British philosopher John Haldane thinks that religion has a bad PR problem and that people with deep religious convictions need to freshen up their image.
MercatorNet interviews 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement.
Strengthening the family is the answer to many of Africa's ailments, says Kenyan paediatrician, mother and award-winning novelist Margaret Ogola.
Parenting is about more than just good behaviour, says Sydney headmaster and author Andrew Mullins. It's about the hard slog of teaching virtues.
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