Flying spaghetti monsters
Pastafarians are helping to expose the relationship between religion and the state, with surprisingly serious results
Faith & Religion
Book review: Work Pray Code
Carolyn Chen asks what happens to us, and what happens to religion, when people worship work.
Is psychology the superstition of our age?
Every era has its myths and rituals, doomed to seem absurd to future generations. Today, we believe in psychology.
What does a Jew look like?
Jews and other minorities are often portrayed using stereotyped imagery. Can we do things differently?
Hungary’s dangerous model of “Christian Democracy”
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a former atheist, is using religion to justify his goal to "make Hungary great again".
The Rushdie affair is not a simple matter of free speech
Religious fundamentalism is on the rise. In Britain, we must fight it by acknowledging the tensions in our own communities.
Forbidden liaisons
As a schoolboy, Laurie Taylor was warned that Protestant girls were "expert in the art of temptation".
What’s behind the war on cash?
Everything is going digital, even money. But what’s behind the drive to stop us using “dirty cash”?
A new college in Poland aims to produce a godly elite
An ultra-conservative university in eastern Europe is teaching an army of lawyers equipped to influence the "liberal west".
Will the killing of a schoolteacher have any effect on Pakistan’s blasphemy laws?
The murder of a teacher accused of blasphemy at an all-girls religious school is the latest in a long line of vigilante attacks.