A review of Nick Barham's Disconnected: Why our kids are turning their backs on everything we thought we knew.

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In this book, Dan Strange highlights five compelling questions the world constantly attempts to answer – whether it’s aware of it or not.

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How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…

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

Vampires are currently one of the biggest phenomena in popular culture. They are central to hit television series like True Blood, Being…

Writer / directors Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest cerebral masterpiece is a fable on the purpose of morality, and the reasons for…

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…