Count yourself out
Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort
Education & Children
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..."…
For uselessness!
In the UK the axe is falling on philosophy departments. Nina Power reports from the frontline