Creationist film not very intelligently designed

Millions of dollars have been spent promoting Ben Stein’s creationist propaganda movie ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ to conservative church groups, but that money would have been better spent on fact checkers, say its critics. The National Center for Science...

Palestinians and Israelis need a just peace

As Israel marks its 60th anniversary this May, for Israelis and Palestinians the conflict and the suffering continues. I believe that this landmark is an important opportunity for Christian leaders around the world to add their voices to a special call for a...

Why Christianity remains a novel idea

OK, so it’s a bit of a cop out to say that Christianity would be great if only it were practiced properly – but I am far from the first to suggest it. G K Chesterton expressed it better when he proposed that Christianity had not been tried and found wanting…...

True faith is always asking questions

The Times columnist Matthew Parris recently gave former Prime Minister Tony Blair a “fail” for his lecture on religion at Westminster Cathedral. Mr Parris, like a lot of the ‘new atheists’, believes that there is no such thing as progressive faith; for the...

Developing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On 10 December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly ‘as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this...