Home ›

Religion

  • 27 Sep 2007
    How faith can be positive for politics

    "You cannot generalise about the role of religion in politics...

  • 26 Sep 2007
    Teachers' guidelines on science and religion teaching
  • 25 Sep 2007
    Gordon Brown and the language of faith

    One of the more intriguing aspects of Gordon Brown's first Labour party conference speech as serving prime minister was his decision to use consciously biblical language as part of his argument against those employing religious rhetoric to oppose his family policy.

  • 25 Sep 2007
    Gordon Brown and religious rhetoric

    One of the more intriguing aspects of Gordon Brown's first Labour party conference speech as serving prime minister was his decision to use consciously biblical language

  • 22 Sep 2007
    Kenyan religious leaders campaign for violence-free elections

    Christian, Muslim and Hindu groups in Kenya are to launch a campaign to urge political leaders to sign a peace charter and pledge to avoid violence ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for December 2007.

  • 19 Sep 2007
    Why Christians should take Richard Dawkins seriously

    Though the god Richard Dawkins seeks to demolish is a caricature and often based on ill-informed analysis, says Richard Skinner, it is uncomfortably close to the idol some Christians have chosen to worship.

  • 13 Sep 2007
    Christians urged to back human rights and freedom in Belarus

    Christians in Europe have been urged to support human rights and religious freedom in Belarus, which is ruled by President Alexander Lukashenko, who some rights groups have described as one of the last hardline dictators in eastern Europe.

  • 11 Sep 2007
    Roddick: Greenbelt challenged my bias against religion

    Speaking to the Church Times newspaper ahead of her appearance at the Greenbelt Christian arts festival back in 2004, Dame Anita Roddick - who died yesterday - declared at the time: “What’s wonderful about being my age is having to face your prejudices."

  • 7 Sep 2007
    Making sense of moral muddle

    In due course, I intend to offer a more theologically grounded and ekklesially shaped response to the BBC's new opinion poll on the state of Britain's sense of morality. Meanwhile, here is my Guardian article.

  • 7 Sep 2007
    The slow dawn of reason?

    Both Richard Dawkins and Polly Toynbee, who spend a good deal of time fulminating against caricatures of 'religion' were on the BBC today. And guess what, they abandoned vituperation for once.