Have yourself an existential Christmas
“You should know that I am writing my first serious play and am putting all of me into it (writing,…
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“What’s missing in the work of Richard Dawkins is social justice”
Jovial, clean-cut and impeccably tailored, Martin Hägglund has been hailed as “the most important young philosopher in America”. Born in…
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Could the Brexit Party actually win some seats?
This should be a good election for Nigel Farage — but his party still faces a struggle to secure MPs.
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What Cardinal Newman knew
In 1845 a middle-aged Oxford vicar, after a long period of agonising, decided to convert to Catholicism – to much shock…
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Why I don’t think Priti Patel’s reference to “north London” was an anti-Semitic dog whistle
I do not believe that the Home Secretary had the slightest intention to refer to Jews in her speech, even obliquely.
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British identity is much less linked to religion than it used to be - where does this leave the established…
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Why even atheists think like Christians
For a millennium, to live in the West has been to live in a society saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions.…
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Playing God: A helter skelter and mini-golf are tempting new visitors into sacred spaces
When I was a child, my grandparents would take me to the helter skelter that stands on the edge of…
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