Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…
Buddhism
For centuries, Buddhism has been the dominant religion of the Eastern world. With the rise of the Asian population in the United States,…
The Sweet Words of an Enemy
If your mother claims that you are an honest person, we may trust you that you will do what you say. Yet some reservation is understandable…
The Original Christmas
'No room at the inn' goes the traditional story. But is that really what the Bible says?
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…
"Is Seeing Believing?"
Is our own experience the final and only arbiter for what we can accept as true?
Can Reading the Papers Make You Go Blind?
A newspaper front page is, in essence, a religious object. Of course that isn't what we think we're buying. But it's what we get. Not with…
"What's Wrong with Sex Before Marriage?"
This article suggests that the question of sex before marriage can raise far wider issues than might at first appear.
Having Some Faith in the Grey Matter
A review of Ian McEwan's Saturday.