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  • Long road to renewal

    The Islamic world needs to recover its scientific spirit, says Jim Al-Khalili

  • Today's lesson

    Reading the Bible did not awaken Michael Bywater's faith. But it did move him. Don’t tell Dawkins

  • No ifs, no buts

    Qur’an burning is senseless, but we shouldn't be afraid to speak up for free speech, says Padraig Reidy

  • The man who would be God: an interview with AC Grayling

    Anthony Grayling's latest book is his most daring. He has rewritten the Bible, leaving out God. Matthew Adams meets him

  • Editorial: Creating confusion

    Far from being an atheist straw man, Biblical fundamentalism poses a real threat to British schools

  • Book review: Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota

    Jake Wallis Simons isn't blown away by a debut novelist's take on homegrown radicalism

  • Whitewash

    We have yet to see justice for the thousands of Irish women forced to work in the inhumane conditions of the Magdalen laundries, says Keith Porteous Wood

  • Faultline

    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

  • Is it racist to criticise religion?

    As the Conservative chair Sayeeda Warsi suggests Islamophobia has become acceptable, Paul Sims assesses the boundaries of free speech

  • Count yourself out

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