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faith & ideasHere we host debates on values, ethics, philosophy, spirituality, religions, and belief systems. There has never been a more important time to understand ourselves and one another better.
Religions need to honestly see the outsider as a constituent of themselves to be true to their open promise.
The Church of England has survived a test. But the arc of history still poses it a larger challenge
A rising generation will take Muslims' post-7/7 intellectual ferment forward, testing institutions
How new evidence and insight is enriching historical understanding of early Islam (archive)
The formation of Pakistan is a case-study in the argument over whether religion can be a variant of political ideology
A group of theologians in Ankara is filtering early Islamic
texts in light of modern reason...is this "reformation"?
The theology and history of Islamic law are important, but more must be known about its practice
The new prime minister's official apology to the "stolen generations" of indigenous Australians may have made a political trap for itself
When a careful lecture on legal pluralism is drowned in prejudice, it’s time to restate the principles of a shared civic space
An argument over sharia highlights the difference between Christian and Muslim visions of law
England's leading churchman exposes a larger national-identity crisis
"Dumb down" or be damned? When a debate about religion and law is hijacked by fury, everyone loses
The science-religion "war" is dust. The real argument
is over power and justice
The debate about Muslims and the west must connect ideas to living realities
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letter to Christian leaders reveals Muslim liberals' intellectual vacuity
A cartoon-war veteran responds to Birgitta Steene's article on Sweden's "roundabout dog"
The Qur'an as training manual in a war on unbelief (archive)
A "roundabout dog" with a Muslim theme inflames public passions
Arab Christians were agents of progress in the Arab and Muslim world. What happened?
Scientists who indulge religious-mystical fantasies in the interest of popularisation betray their profession
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