An introduction to the new Ben-Hur film, with details of resources for churches and other groups.

According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…

In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a very unusual sort of criminal. Along with the pragmatic Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he is paid to…

There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

Having suffered a drawn-out divorce, a failed rebound relationship and a debilitating bout of depression, Elizabeth Gilbert decides to go…

A review of the film of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.

A look at how the rise of mass media has helped us create alternative 'electronic universes' – worlds where God has no place.