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  • 27 Apr 2007
    Slotting in religion

    In the debate about Thought for the Day, there's a difference between creating space for spirituality ('spirited takes' on life, you might say) and stranded or sealed "religious broadcasting".

  • 27 Apr 2007
    Losing our (radio) religion?

    Simon Barrow suggests that how the churches see their engagement with culture, including spaces like the BBC's Thought for The Day, is shaped by the question about how God has been turned into an artefact under Christendom.

  • 27 Apr 2007
    Why we need to rid ourselves of the 'god of the slots'

    The church looking for ‘God slots’ in relation to culture is like religion seeking a ‘God of the gaps’ in relation to science: a huge mistake. The Gospel points us elsewhere.

  • 20 Apr 2007
    Wider range of voices called for in BBC’s beliefs radio slot

    BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day reflection spot could be opened up to the non-religious as well as the religious, argues one of its Christian contributors. Jonathan Bartley says it can help people to listen to one another better.

  • 16 Apr 2007
    Muslims, Christians and the global human challenge

    Simon Barrow gives an overview of three scholarly contributions by Kenneth Cragg, perhaps the world's leading interpreter of the relations between the Semitic faiths and their encounters with Western culture.

  • 21 Mar 2007
    Resisting the polarising mindset

    Simon Barrow says that the idea of 'religious liberals' being foils for bombers and bigots is a distorted and distorting notion produced by too much heat and not enough light.

  • 21 Mar 2007
    Less heat and more light needed on religion and extremism
  • 21 Mar 2007
    Secularist leader accuses religious liberals of aiding fanatics

    The president of the National Secular Society has written an article claiming that religious liberals are “making excuses for the same beliefs that motivate bombers and theocrats, misogynists and homophobes”. Others disagree.