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Tested in fire: the positive side of suffering
(3 minute read) Some words heard at church led Nicole Law to consider how suffering can be a good teacher.
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Waking up to creation’s cry
(4 minute read) Clare Campbell offers a myriad of practical ideas for turning a papal document into a plan for action to save the world.
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A masterpiece or mishap? A church which reignites the debate over 60s architecture
(5 minute read) Adam Brocklehurst visits a Manchester church and discovers a powerful monument to God and modernity.
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Orwell on Religion
(8 minute read) James Bradshaw examines the great writer’s love-hate relationship with faith.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Catholic Church
(3 minute read) What can such an ‘old-fashioned’ religious institution say about this most modern of technological revolutions? asks Aaron Humphriss. A lot, he says, and it’s worth listening to.
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How simplistic narratives can mislead us: a case study of the Galileo affair
(8 minute read) We need to know how to deal with complexity to avoid falling for false myths about the past, argues Patrick J. Casey.
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Joy to the world
(3 minute read) In adulthood festive joy is changed, not ended, as Marie McCoy discovers.
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“Today, the divisions are more within religions than between religions”
(2 minute read) We have entered ‘a golden age of inter-religious dialogue’, Rabbi David Shlomo Rosen, the American Jewish Committee’s International Director of Interreligious Affairs, tells Maria José Atienza.
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Life lessons from Roman splendour
(6 minute read) The fading glory of an Italian church teaches Adam Brocklehurst about suffering and compassion.
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The sex scandal that the tabloids ignore
(8 minute read) Only international pressure will save young girls from kidnap and forced marriage in Pakistan, says John Pontifex.
