Articles by subject: Christianity
- How I became the poster-boy for polygamy (by Martin Robbins, May/June 2012 )
- In their increasingly desperate fight against equal marriage, Christian campaigners will use any argument to mask their homophobia. Which is why they're holding me up as the figurehead of an unlikely cause, says Martin Robbins
- The passion of the bishop (by Caspar Melville, May/June 2012 )
- After years of struggle with his faith and dispair at the church's in-fighting and repressive attitude to sex, fomer bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway left religion behind. Caspar Melville hears his confession
- Top Six: Jesus Sightings (by Christina Martin, March/April 2012 )
- If the Lord moves in mysterious ways, then his son moves in downright weird ones. Jesus Christ’s inexplicable predilection for appearing in the snack foods of small-town America has become even more legendary than his early work in the Bible. It started small, toast mostly, the occasional taco or flatbread, but to get those column inches – and please the fans – one must up the ante. Christina Martin selects some of his greatest public appearances
- A tale of two Dickens (by Matthew Adams, January/February 2012 )
- The great Christian chronicler of Victorian destitution was also a ‘wicked man’. Matthews Adams talks to biographer Claire Tomalin about the conflicted life that fed his art
- Return of the moral minority (by Francis Beckett, January/February 2012 )
- Fire-and-brimstone evangelists are usually associated with the US. But turn to the BBC at the weekend and you’ll see they’re enjoying a revival on these shores, says Francis Beckett
- The last Crusade (by Kenan Malik, November/December 2011 )
- The claim that Christianity provides the bedrock of Western culture might serve the interests of extremists, but it is a betrayal of a far more complex history, argues Kenan Malik
- Heavenly host: Caspar Melville interviews Rev Richard Coles (by Caspar Melville, November/December 2011 )
- Former popstar, BBC presenter and parish priest Reverend Richard Coles talks to Caspar Melville about faith, doubt and dachsunds
- What are they teaching my kids? (by Rob Deering, November/December 2011 )
- Rob Deering is unimpressed by his local primary school's reliance on lazy, default Christianity
- Vicars, vicars everywhere (by Caspar Melville, November/December 2011 )
- An issue that's packed with priests
- Human folly (by Matthew Adams, September/October 2011 )
- Half a millennium ago a book by a Catholic theologian unwittingly ignited a secular revolution. Matthew Adams salutes Erasmus
- Apocalypse then (by Aaron Rosen, September/October 2011 )
- As John Martin's visions of Armageddon go on show at Tate Britain, Aaron Rosen argues that they are powerful because they're genuinely scary
- Today's lesson (by Michael Bywater, May/June 2011 )
- Reading the Bible did not awaken Michael Bywater's faith. But it did move him. Don’t tell Dawkins
- Witch-hunt saboteurs (by Richard Wilson, May/June 2011 )
- Across Africa, humanists are on the front line in the battle to protect women and children accused of witchcraft. Richard Wilson reports
- Count yourself out (by Winston Fletcher, March/April 2011 )
- Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort
- Faultline (by Eliza Griswold, March/April 2011 )
- From the Philippines to West Africa the tenth parallel, the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator, is a geographical frontline between Christianity and Islam. Eliza Griswold has researched the resulting conflict for seven years. This is her dispatch from Nigeria
- Bad Faith Awards 2010 (by Paul Sims, January/February 2011 )
- Who gave the silliest sermon or pious pronouncement of the past year? Thousands of you voted and the results are in
- It's the faith, stupid! (by Caspar Melville, January/February 2011 )
- Social scientist Olivier Roy has been tracking religion for three decades. Caspar Melville talks to him about his new book Holy Ignorance
- Terrible beauty (by Roger Davidson, September/October 2009 )
- Why is religious art so blood-soaked and morbid asks Roger Davidson
- Atheism in Christianity by Ernst Bloch (by Owen Hatherley, September/October 2009 )
- Owen Hatherley sings the praises of Ernst Bloch, the prophet of serious atheism
- Sex appeal (by Dagmar Herzog, September/October 2008 )
- America’s Religious Right has devised a seductive new recruitment strategy, reveals Dagmar Herzog
- Backward Christian soldiers (by David Belden, January/February 2008 )
- Evangelicals are taking over the US military, reports David Belden. And one man’s determined to stop them
- The closing of the Christian mind (by Charles Freeman, January/February 2008 )
- In the late fourth century political expediency led a ruthless Roman emperor to shut down debate within the Christian church. Charles Freeman explains
- Campus crusades (by Ebenezer Obadare, November/December 2007 )
- Ebenezer Obadare reports on the rise of Nigeria’s student zealots
- Blasphemy in the Christian World by David Nash (by Toby Saul, November/December 2007 )
- Toby Saul on how blasphemy changed the way we think
- Thinker: Jean Meslier (by Colin Brewer, July/August 2007 )
- Colin Brewer on Jean Meslier, a priest who left a deathbed bombshell
- Hostile takeover (by Donald Sassoon, March/April 2007 )
- A powerful coalition is trying to define Europe as Christian. And, warns Donald Sassoon, they must be stopped at once
- Always read the small print (by Padraig Reidy, September/October 2006 )
- Padraig Reidy discovers a new route to heaven
- Alpha male (by Michael Marsden, July/August 2006 )
- Michael Marsden goes in search of the Holy Spirit
- Is God a hedgehog? (by Martin Rowson, January/February 2005 )
- Martin Rowson has some terrible thoughts
- Carolina dreaming (by Fletcher Crossman, November/December 2004 )
- Fletcher Crossman assesses the chances of the Christian Exodus movement
- Sailing to Byzantium (by Christopher Lord, November/December 2004 )
- Anti-Enlightenment dogma is creeping into public life in Orthodox eastern Europe, says Christopher Lord
- Pyrrhic victory (by Frank Jordans, July/August 2004 )
- Editorial
- The Christian Culture of Death (by Robert Ashby, Summer 2001 )
- Robert Ashby, chairman of the BHA, looks at how we leave the world
- Nightmare before Christmas (by Robin Ince, Web Exclusive, December 2007)
- When Robin Ince was invited onto TV to debate the "de-Christianisation" of Christmas, the flawed arguments of Vanessa Feltz and Stephen Green were enough to leave him foaming at the mouth
- Defending The Family (by Jeff Sharlet, Web Exclusive, December 2008)
- Jeff Sharlet responds to James Crabtree's review of his book The Family
- Film review: Of Gods and Men (by Fred Rowson, Web Exclusive, January 2011)
- This depiction of the last days of seven monks murdered by extremists has been widely celebrated, but its questionable take on Christian devotion is ultimately dissatisfying, says Fred Rowson
- Bunnies, chicks and brutal torture (by Myra Zepf, Web Exclusive, March 2012)
- Humanist parent Myra Zepf confronts the perils of the Easter festivities
