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  • Free to teach creationism?

    Under the government's education reforms, 15 per cent of groups applying to open academies are religious. How would those schools handle evolution? James Gray investigates

  • Count yourself out

    Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort

  • Editorial: oh we of little faith

    Are faith and religion necessarily intertwined?

  • It's the faith, stupid!

    Social scientist Olivier Roy has been tracking religion for three decades. Caspar Melville talks to him about his new book Holy Ignorance

  • Faith in schools?

    Thanks largely to immigration, religious belief is making a comeback in our schools. Should we be concerned? Jim Mulligan visits Ed Miliband’s old school to find out.

  • Don't fall into the faith school trap

    Responding to Francis Beckett's proposal for a humanist school, Rabbi Jonathan Romain of the Accord Coalition warns of the risks of endorsing religious segregation in education

  • Is it time for atheist schools?

    Francis Beckett outlines his proposal for Britain's first avowedly humanist state school

  • Banned: the hidden censorship of children's books

    Tibet, sausages and masturbating mice – as Banned Book Week begins, Anne Rooney explores the hidden restrictions on what your children read

  • Mint on the breath

    A corrupt priest, an abused child, a knife. The dreadful consequences of clerical child abuse unfold in a specially written short story by Mark Say

  • Growing up godless

    “Should you tell your four-year-old you believe we are all alone in a godless universe? My Dad did, and I turned out OK. Discounting the fact I am a comedian..." Catie Wilkins on her atheist upbringing