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  • So why exactly does England have an established church?

    As Church of England attendances continue to fall, Paul Sims considers the nation's love of anachronisms

  • Malta

    Free speech and religion don't mix in one of Europe's most religious states, reports Anna Vesterinen

  • What’s a 'Cultural Muslim'?

    For years Saif Rahman has been an agnostic and an ex-Muslim activist. So why is he thinking of calling himself a cultural Muslim?

  • Do you want to see The Unbelievers?

    A new documentary follows godless superstars Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss on their world tour to vanquish irrationalism, with cameos from Woody Allen, Cameron Diaz, Ricky Gervais and a host of other fans. Excited? Appalled? Couldn't care less? Let us know

  • What do you want from a rationalist community?

    Our new online rationalist community has 2350 members, which is a great start. Now we have to decide how to develop it, what it stands for and what it should be doing. Caspar Melville explains the options and how you can help decide

  • God squads

    How would you feel if your child came home from primary school saying they were representing the "Christian Team" against the "Muslim Team" in playground football? Ian Horsewell on religion's power to divide

  • Sunday Assembly kicked out of deconsecrated church venue

    Rumblings on a Steiner School board have left the atheist church homeless – prompting the home of humanism to ride to the rescue

  • Maldives

    The Indian Ocean islands are known as a honeymoon paradise, but beyond the gates of the luxury hotels the dominance of Sharia law prohibits free speech and prescribes brutal punishment for those accused of extra-marital sex. Anna Vesterinen reports

  • Thrashing for Jesus, Rapping For Science

    The god debate has infiltrated popular music. Dale DeBakcsy looks at how heavenly metal squares up to rationalist rap

  • Russia

    In Russia, the increasingly close relationship between the state and the Orthodox Church has led to the introduction of a new blasphemy law designed to clamp down on dissidents in the wake of the Pussy Riot scandal. Anna Vesterinen reports