The Church and homosexuality
John Habgood
An important new book reminds us that the Bible's condemnation of men lying with men was more about gender relationships than sexual orientation |
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What He said
A. E. Harvey
Are the Gospels based on eyewitness accounts? |
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The dishcloth and the tallith
Gabriel Josipovici
For the Christians of the Middle Ages, the Jews represented a problem: they were defined by their blindness, but it was out of Judaism that Christianity had come. Did the Jews know something that was hidden to Christians? |
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A deadly certitude
Steven Weinberg
Richard Dawkins may be right to show contempt for religion - but in our times it is folly to disrespect all religions equally. |
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The carbon and the Christian
Thomas Dixon
Most of us assume that our beliefs are products of an evolved brain; but this is no longer being treated as a knock-down argument either for or against religious faith. |
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Chronicles of the Beast
Alastair Sooke
Satan is back in vogue; but how much sympathy should we spare for him? His case has hardly been well defended - "God has written all the books". |
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Life stories
Anthony Kenny
When an individual life begins - and the ethics of ending it |
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