In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)
The fight over evolution has reached the big, big screen. Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject or the Big
Why are so many Chinese turning to Christianity? A Chinese-Finnish academic collaboration reports 2 million new members baptised annually in Chinas Protestant church:
And as if the growth rate
When I first met my future mother-in-law I saw a well-dressed conservative American navy-and-oil-business matron. She saw an ill-dressed, long-haired, over-educated, novel-writing leftist carpenter.
I was prepared. She wasnt.
Progress rules!
Academic historians would choke on their coffee if you suggested it, but there is an arrow to history. Before you choke, let me explain what I dont
Julian Baggini writes honestly, as an atheist, in openDemocracys forum in response to my last column, Sin and tsunamis. He reflects that, while atheists can and do live meaningful
The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 provoked the first modern discussion about the causes of natural disasters fate, science, God, or human failure. What lessons does the world need to learn
When I was a child in London in the 1950s we had pea soup fogs, coal fires, visible lumps of soot landing on my Dads car while I was
You would think that the one kind of person that Europeans would welcome with open arms right now is a liberal Muslim. Any liberal Muslim. Even one who believes in
Since the American election of 2 November 2004, a map has been whizzing around the liberal parts of the internet. It shows The United States of Canada, which joins the
A friend says that if Bush wins, shell leave the country. She writes a letter to our smalltown paper arguing that Bush is doing the same things Hitler
I had a Sylvia wall calendar once that commemorated dates chosen, and anticipated dates imagined, by the cartoonist Nicole Hollander. Beside one date were the words: On this day the
