In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…

Towards the end of God on Trial, broadcast on Wednesday 3rd September 2008 on BBC2, a group of Auschwitz prisoners concluded that God was…

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To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.

This helpful summary of philosopher Charles Taylor's work examines what it means to live in a secular age.

Why are so many of the films and TV shows we enjoy obsessed with the end of the world?

‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…

Having suffered a drawn-out divorce, a failed rebound relationship and a debilitating bout of depression, Elizabeth Gilbert decides to go…