“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

Bill Maher, a well-known American comedian, satirist and religious sceptic has added this comedy-documentary to the growing number of…

Towards the end of God on Trial, broadcast on Wednesday 3rd September 2008 on BBC2, a group of Auschwitz prisoners concluded that God was…

Why do people do the things they do? It’s a question the world’s greatest philosophers, theologians, scientists and doctors…

Review of Amazing Grace in the light of whether religion is a force for good or for bad.

Reviews of some of Joanne Harris' novels, including Chocolat.

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

Cricket is the new football, or so they say. This year’s [2005] Ashes Test Series between England and Australia has defined the…

In one poll, J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Lord of the Rings was voted the British public's best loved book. Jerram Barrs delves into Tolkien's…