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  • Religion

    Religious faith builds a civil society in a way secularism does not

    Austen Ivereigh
    Austen Ivereigh: Religion generates networks of participation that are far more lasting and committed than secular civic organisations
  • Doing good is not the preserve of the religious

    Andrew Copson
  • Michele Bachmann addresses the crowd during the Faith and Family Coalition rally

    Do believers make better citizens?

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  • David Mach sculpture

    Not all religious art is made by believers

    Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
    Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin: David Mach is an atheist but his latest exhibition is a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible
  • The faith devotional art requires need not be religious

    Peter Thompson
    Peter Thompson: It is just as easy for an atheist to recognise the sublime nature of art because transcendental potential resides in us all
  • Leonardo da Vinci's restored masterpiece The Last Supper

    Transcendental artistry can unite even Dawkins and the pope

    Catherine Pepinster
    Catherine Pepinster: Religious art is increasingly annotated in galleries, but in music at least, beauty can overcome all stumbling blocks
  • Religious art is about being human

    Sophia Deboick
  • <The Creation of Adam> by Michelangelo

    Do we need faith to see religious art?

  • Londoners clean up Clapham Junction after riots

    Our response to the riots must be guided by reason, not rage

    Andrew Copson

    Andrew Copson: We have much to learn from Norway's achievement of social cohesion through rational thought – even in the midst of tragedy

  • riots spiritual answers

    We are all in serious spiritual trouble

    Albert Radcliffe
  • Riot police patrol the streets in Tottenham

    Is there a spiritual response to the riots?

    The question
  • The Response prayers

    Teavangelicals: in capitalism and free markets they trust

    Anthea Butler
    Anthea Butler: Their 19th-century forebears would not recognise the conservative solipsistic morality of these evangelical Christians
  • Pastor Rick Warren

    American Christianity: constantly reimagined, manipulated and exploited

    Sarah Posner
    Sarah Posner: The maligning of do-gooder Protestants, for example, is far older than Glenn Beck's assault on social justice
  • Office workers crossing street in downtown Melbourne

    We can't forgive, we can only pretend to

    Mark Vernon
    Mark Vernon: Evolutionary doctrine teaches us that it's in our own self-interest to co-operate and to put up with others
  • POPE FORGIVENESS

    To forgive isn't divine, it's deeply human

    Caspar Melville
    Caspar Melville: Religions no more created forgiveness or own it than Adele invented soul music
  • The more we understand, the less we blame

    Harriet Baber
    Harriet Baber: We know better than our knuckle-dragging ancestors and can repudiate punishment based on vindictive sentiment
  • inmate prison

    Forgiveness must be earned

    Jonathan Romain
  • Mark Stroman

    What's the point of forgiveness?

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