God?s chance creation

Cardinal Christoph Sch?nborn claims random evolution is incompatible with belief in a creator God. Here, in an exclusive rebuttal of that view, the Vatican?s chief astronomer says that science reflects God?s infinite purpose...

The conundrum of dialogue

Relativists and evangelicals puzzle even the most liberal of Muslims. So how to solve the pressing problem of mutual understanding? The answer, says Hartford Seminary?s Dean, may well lie with conservative Christians...

A way amid the mountains

In the first of a new summer series, Richard Abbott visits Rydal Hall, a Lake District retreat centre set in Edwardian gardens created as a route to God...

A question of peace...

While the IRA?s end to ?armed conflict? is a profound step forward, there is still far to go on Northern Ireland?s rocky road to the end of violence...

? And an answer to war

In a dysfunctional society scarred by division, only a Bill of Rights guaranteeing that everyone in Northern Ireland matters equally could heal the wounds of strife...

Luck, skill and the comeback PM

Tony Blair, the leader who won the election despite himself, has been transformed by recent events and his response to them. As he considers life beyond No 10, could he prove that not all political careers end in failure?...

The greatest challenge yet

Washington and London pursued the war with Iraq as a response to terror. A far more imaginative solution to this threat is required of the Great Powers...

Single of this parish

?Bachelors?, gay or otherwise, and ?spinsters?, young or old, are to be no more. The Registrar General has decreed that all the unwed are to be simply ?single?...

Snack from Siena?s feast

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