A great scientific breakthrough is also a path to appreciating the core ingredient of our humanity, says Tina Beattie.
The sexual violation of young people within the Catholic church is the poisonous legacy of a long tradition of contempt for human sexuality in an institution which has privileged secrecy and unaccountable power over transparency and participation. But the silence and darkness revealed by the scand
I was walking past a Marks & Spencer store towards Edgware Road tube station in central London recently when a security-guard rushed out of the shop and ran past me.
Lars von Trier is a tantalising film-director who provokes his audiences sometimes to the point of humiliation. He is also a master of visual theology. His Antichrist is the antithesis
"One wants to do this thing of just walking along the edge of the precipice." (Francis Bacon)
An enterprising plan to display an atheist message on the side
Forget the gadgetry and stunts in Christopher Nolan's brooding Batman film, The Dark Knight. Clever though they are, they are only the visual props for a multi-layered philosophical
On 7 February 2008, Rowan Williams - the Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual head of the Anglican church - delivered the foundation lecture at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
The Economist recently published a colour supplement titled "In God's Name: A Special Report on Religion and Public Life" (3 November 2007). The accompanying leading article
The scholar Conor Gearty, writing in the Catholic weekly journal the Tablet, has argued that the relationship between religion and human rights is likely to become an increasingly significant area
Britain has become increasingly secularised since the 1960s, although the 2001 census showed that some 72% of people still describe themselves as Christian. Under Tony Blair's leadership, the
A Muslim woman wearing a face-veil (niqab) and sitting in the surgery of her male member of parliament is a complex and interesting phenomenon. Some might argue that she
Let me begin with a speculative proposition. When Pope Benedict XVI was invited to give a lecture at the place he had once studied, the University of Regensburg in Bavaria,
