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  • 6 Aug 2012
    Beyond institutional faith... disorganised religion?

    We live in an era where people are inquisitive about spirituality, but hugely distrustful or even hostile towards ‘organised religion’, especially in its Christian forms.

  • 24 Feb 2012
    Silence: a healing tool for the secular believer

    Not speaking unless you can improve on silence is something with which most Quakers are comfortable. This may mean holding your peace even when you have an opinion.

  • 13 Feb 2012
    French candidate wants to put church-state separation into constitution

    The Socialist front-runner in the race for the French presidency wants the separation of church and state to be put directly into the constitution.

  • 5 Feb 2012
    European secularists complain of unfair treatment

    Humanist and secularist organisations have accused the European Union of denying them equal treatment compared to the continent's Christian churches.

  • 13 Sep 2011
    Critical religion and the 'religion-secular' binary

    Classifying communities and their practices and values as ‘religious’ often has the effect of marginalising them from the mainstream of public debates on justice and the proper ends of the good life, says scholar Timothy Fitzgerald. Such classification has the effect of clothing secular reason with the misleading aura of neutral objectivity, he suggests.

  • 13 Jun 2011
    Bonhoeffer offers clues to being church in ‘religionless’ eastern Germany

    A widespread “everyday atheism” requires a new understanding of what it means to be the church, according to Berlin theologian Dr Wolf Krötke.

  • 8 Apr 2011
    Is a 'secular bible' good enough?

    It is not the non-theistic philosophy that is dismaying in Grayling’s new 'secular bible', says Maggi dawn. It’s the sheer failure of imagination of someone who will dismiss the real Bible as mumbo jumbo, while putting their own uninspiring prose out there as an alternative.

  • 18 Mar 2011
    Average Norwegian goes to church once a year, statistics show

    The average Church of Norway member went to church once a year in 2010, Statistics Norway reported in the annual statistical report it sends to the church.

  • 18 Mar 2011
    Secular power in Swedish schools

    Sweden, by some standards one of the world’s most secular countries, has passed a new education law stipulating that public schools must teach their subjects in a “non-confessional” and “objective” manner. Joseph Ballan explores the complex boundaries and definitions of secularity and religiosity in the public arena.

  • 11 Mar 2011
    Schama Cambridge lecture points to secularity in the Middle East

    Discussion is needed on the prospects of secular polity in the Middle East, historian Professor Simon Schama has said in a public lecture at Cambridge University.