Dave Belden, an Englishman living in New York State, is a corporate business writer. He has worked as a religious volunteer in India and Ethiopia, as a carpenter in England and America and is an active member, and past President, of a small congregation in Catskills, New York. He has a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University. His novels Children of Arable and To Warm The Earth are available from Vivisphere.com. He is a columnist for openDemocracy.

Recent articles

The ban by some Imax cinemas in the United States of films referring to evolution teaches Dave Belden a lesson about the right's distrust and the left's frustration.

Many Chinese people are embracing religion as well as the market, but is their long march leading towards Europe?

A family difference over childrearing makes Dave Belden rethink America’s political future.

The “cooperation-plus-competition” that shapes life on earth, from microbes to the internet, gives Dave Belden optimism about the human future.

The universe is creative and regenerative as well as brutal and finite – just like humans. In this lies a consolation that is open to believer and atheist alike, says Dave Belden.