A tax to save the world

The scale of the economic crisis facing the world is daunting. But it could also be an opportunity for refashioning the financial system. Here, a Cambridge professor makes one proposal that could have far-reaching consequences for reconstruction...

Caring by the Rule

Thirteen years as a contemplative monk gave John Gale an insight into the value of community. In the second of his series on the influence of faith on those in the caring sector, Terry Philpot talks to the chief executive of the mental-health charity CHT...

Of popes and patriarchs

The Royal Academy’s exhibition ‘Byzantium 330-1453’, which opens today in London, is one of the most ambitious displays of the splendours of the Byzantine Empire ever staged. Here, an expert in the era explores the changing relationship between Byzantium and the papacy...

Unrest within the bosom of Abraham

While relations between the Vatican and the Jews improve – the Pius XII controversy notwithstanding – those with the other great faith of the Book are not yet so harmonious, as Catholic bishops meeting in Rome for the Word of God synod heard this week...

When is a martyr a traitor?

The most famous memorial to the Reformation martyrs in Oxford recognises only Protestants. A new commemoration redresses the balance; but it is unveiled today amid controversy, not only about the purpose of ‘tribal’ memorials in ecumenical times but about the standing of martyrs...

Worship and service

The response of a witness to God’s glory is, like Moses, to ‘bow one’s head towards the earth and worship’. But as Daniel McCarthy explains, this week’s Prayer Over the Gifts highlights that this response also involves caring for our neighbour...

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Tablet Education

No need to be Neet - Time well spent - Where the Good News is a class act - Too much, too young? - Tweenage witness - ...