Wagner for atheists
The operatic canon, and Wagner in particular, is saturated with religious imagery that can be incomprehensible and off-putting to a modern audience. But that doesn't mean secularists should shun them,…
Culture
Emotional labour pains
Laurie Taylor feels the un-spontaneous love
Book review: Lenin’s Kisses by Yan Lianke
Sam Geall enjoys a strange and darkly funny debut about life in the new China
Book review: Control Order House by Edmund Clark
Edmund Clark's eerily mundane collection of photographs and documents reveals the sinister reality of suspected terrorists confined without trial in suburbia
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…
South London spiritual
Though he is an atheist, Matthew Adams finds peace and solace in the Victorian churches of the South London suburb of Brockley. Photographs by Melissa Harrison
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
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
Yes, Ann, I am having a laugh
In a recent television programme Ann Widdecombe denounced much contemporary comedy as anti-Christian and offensive. Balderdash, says Terri Murray, no ideas should be protected from satire
Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York November 7, 2008