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  • 1 Aug 2009
    Christianity versus ‘the church of power’

    Christians have moved from non-engagement to engagement in politics, says Simon Barrow, but often in domineering and selfish ways. To argue for church as alternative community is not to advocate either 'secularism' or 'religionism', but the recovery of authentic Christianity in a plural environment.

  • 7 Jun 2009
    The terrifying truth about God

    Often Christians behave as if their central convictions about God has little practical bearing on the world and its problems, says Simon Barrow. On the contrary, being engaged by the Trinitarian mystery of God is central to facing up to the world's lesions with realism and hope.

  • 31 Mar 2009
    Netherlands church authorities decline action against rebel pastor

    Two regional church authorities in the Netherlands are reported to have decided to take no disciplinary action against a self-proclaimed atheist pastor, Klaas Hendrikse

  • 15 Mar 2009
    Changing belief patterns in the USA

    The dominance of religion in American public life has taken a different form to that of Europe under Christendom. But the US picture is changing too.

  • 12 Feb 2009
    Once-atheist Albania urged to return seized religious property

    Europe's biggest grouping of Anglican, Orthodox and Protestant churches has called on Albania to return sacred property seized during the 46 years of communist rule that followed the Second World War.

  • 12 Jan 2009
    Driving a bus through belief?

    By adding more weight to the debate, the campaigning atheists won’t stop the worry about God, says Mark Vernon. Unless they can stop talking about it, they’ll only succeed in giving the rumour new life.

  • 22 Oct 2008
    Cold water, buses and shared humanity

    The usual internet ranters apart, the much-publicised 'atheist bus project' has provoked some lively discussion and response.

  • 22 Oct 2008
    Godless "happy bus to nowhere" proves an instant hit

    The fundraising campaign to procure money for a fleet of London buses that will tell people there is probably no God and they should get on with being happy has proved an instant hit, raising over five times its target in the first day.

  • 21 Oct 2008
    Non-religion beyond Christendom
  • 21 Oct 2008
    Bussing people to atheism?