Caspar Melville unravels the rise and fall of dreadlocks
We have already invented a way for the devout and the godless to get along in public, says Paul Kelly. We just have to believe in it
Natalie Haynes goes in search of spiritual enlightenment
From philosophy to fart jokes George Carlin always got there first, says Robin Ince
The 21st century has seen the world rocked by a variety of religious challenges to the secular state. Mark Juergensmeyer went in search of common features
Politics, religion and money may be wrestling to control the Olympics. But, argues Paul Sims, they’ll never be a match for the sheer drama
Moses Kamya, headteacher of the Mustard Seed Secular School in Uganda, reports on the rise of the preacher on the streets of the capital
With the decline of the old-style Christian Right, are US evangelicals growing up?
Laurie Taylor gets medieval with the cults
While secularists sleep well-funded creationists are on the march in Europe says Peter C Kjærgaard