The eyes of Piero’s risen Jesus gaze with the compelling blankness of a man who, just this very moment, has walked out of hell. It is a face that even atheists have found they…
It is just nine months since the coalition government assumed power. Even before the election, it was well known that the country’s finances were in a parlous state. The…
It is a sunny spring late afternoon and a young American, attached to his nation’s embassy, saunters back to his apartment in a quiet part of Paris. As a foreign diplomat he is a…
David Boulton inspiringly describes (25 March) how three Quaker groups coming from different angles – including humanists, agnostics and atheists – found common ground at…
It is just over two and a half years since Lehman Brothers bank filed a petition for bankruptcy. The event was a defining moment in recent times and the shock waves are still…
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