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As big questions go, you can’t get much bigger than “What is the meaning of life?” It is a question that is often modified ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt ...

The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About? (Oxford University Press) by Nick Spencer and Hannah ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Few atheists know the Bible as intimately as Dan Barker. Few, after all, can profess ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

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Can the Integrated Education Act help to break the segregation of Catholic and Protestant education in Northern Ireland?

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...

The popular association of atheism with immorality is a particular deterrent for women who have religious doubts, since in Arab society they are expected to be “virtuous” in order to marry. “It is ...

Technology is enabling us to retreat from the outside world. But we should resist the urge – for ourselves and for each other Patrons outside a busy pub in the Yorkshire Dales. Credit: Alamy There ...

The great Buddha statue in Nha Trang, Vietnam by Petr Ruzicka On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out ...