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While serving in Afghanistan, Petty Officer Chris Holden has attended numerous memorials to honour the dead. This is what they look like to an atheist
Faith & Religion
Crossing the line?
Did the Met’s anti-terrorism unit end up in bed with Muslim extremism? Paul Sims meets Robert Lambert, the ex-Special Branch man fighting accusations of collusion
Heavenly host: Caspar Melville interviews Rev Richard Coles
Former popstar, BBC presenter and parish priest Reverend Richard Coles talks to Caspar Melville about faith, doubt and dachsunds
Bad Faith Awards 2011: place your vote now
Who has been this year's leading enemy of reason?
The last Crusade
The claim that Christianity provides the bedrock of Western culture might serve the interests of extremists, but it is a betrayal of a far more complex history, argues Kenan Malik
Editorial: Big talk
David Cameron says Britain is broken. But can the Big Society fix it?
Norway’s tragedy calls for perspective
We must respond to extremism by protecting liberal values, argues Kenan Malik
Is it over for Catholic Ireland?
The deteriorating relationship between the Vatican and the Irish state is good news for the Republic, says Padraig Reidy
Apocalypse then
As John Martin's visions of Armageddon go on show at Tate Britain, Aaron Rosen argues that they are powerful because they're genuinely scary
Human folly
Half a millennium ago a book by a Catholic theologian unwittingly ignited a secular revolution. Matthew Adams salutes Erasmus