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  • 7 Mar 2011
    Having faith in the importance of doubt

    Certainty sells in both science and religion, says former priest Mark Vernon. It can also be enormously damaging. But as Thomas Aquinas realised, the best we can do when talking about God is to understand what God is not, and be open to what God might be, beyond our comprehension. It’s also known as faith.

  • 7 Mar 2011
    Faithfully doubting religious and anti-religious dogmatism
  • 23 Jan 2011
    Religious leaders must be more open, says senior Muslim

    Religious leaders in Britain must make themselves more available to journalists to provide "authentic, mainstream" views, says a leading Muslim.

  • 27 Oct 2010
    History today: war religion, peace religion

    Today and tomorrow, 27 & 28 October, are key dates in Christian history. Constantine's 'vision of the Cross' in 312, and his attribution of military victory at the Battle of Milvian Bridge the next day to God, was the beginning of Christendom in Europe - an era which mixed civilisation with bloodshed, saints with militarism, and faith with often brutal sacralised-secular power.

  • 27 Oct 2010
    Religion in the Census
  • 19 Oct 2010
    How religion both unites and divides America

    The long-awaited new book on American religion and its impact from Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell introduces us to complexities and contradictions which often get overlooked public debate, says Martin Marty. Does religion unite or divide? Experience says 'both'. But exactly where, how and why remains important for a rounded view.

  • 4 Oct 2010
    Young people indifferent not hostile to religion, says new study

    Youth have not inherited a rebellious hostility to their parents’ beliefs, although for many religion is irrelevant for daily living, says a new report.

  • 29 Sep 2010
    Charting America's decline in church attendance

    So sudden have been the marked trends showing disaffection from organised religion that leaders have not internalised the evidence, says Martin Marty. They need to wake up. “Being spiritual” alone is not going to help keep the stories, the language of ethics, and the pool of volunteers embedded in religious bodies thriving.

  • 15 Jan 2010
    Reconsidering the secular - project
  • 23 Dec 2009
    Searching for God after Christendom

    Revivals, awakenings, ethnic shifts, mobility, and religious marketplaces have always invited drifting, says Martin Marty. But recent Pew research on the US situation suggests that there is such a big quantitative shift that it amounts to a change in the quality of commitments.