by Sean Reilly | Jan 19, 2008
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has advertised for a Muslim schools adviser to develop links between Jewish, Muslim and other minority faith schools – writes Martin Revis. The initiative by the representative body of British Jewry is a response to the...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 3, 2007
The occasion was the third annual Jeremy Bentham lecture, named after the eighteenth century philosopher who is a hero of secular rationalists. It was given by Tim Crane, a self-confessed atheist and professor of philosophy at University College London – the place...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 1, 2007
The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance in Geneva, a partnership involving major Christian development and church agencies, including several in the UK, is encouraging people of faith to take individual and collective responsibility for combatting HIV/AIDS. Among the ideas...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 1, 2007
Faith-based campaigners and religious leaders say churches should not relax their efforts to deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic despite UN figures showing a drop in the number of people worldwide living with the virus. “This is not the time for complacency nor...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 29, 2007
This week marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Blake, who wrote in his Preface to Milton: “And did those feet in ancient time.” These words open stanzas which are among the best-known of English poetry. They have become a very necessary...
