In every chapter we find the author in a different bothy (11 in Scotland, one in Wales), usually escaping some undetailed ...

From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor?

Back in 2017, a resident-led campaign chased off planning applications for two gas power plants, one of which was to be built ...

Book review: The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law In his new book, Jonathan Sumption explores the different components – legal, institutional and cultural – that allow democracy to flourish ...

A section of the 'The Arnolfini Portrait' by Jan Van Eyck For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown's feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Penicillin Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of ...

Still, the language of religious belief cannot be all metaphor. We must be able to say at least something in non-metaphorical language to identify what the metaphors are about. Consider the opening of ...

You could not work from your couch, or speak face-to-face with people living elsewhere, or gain any real insights into whatever was happening outside your front door, aside from watching the news on ...

The popular association of atheism with immorality is a particular deterrent for women who have religious doubts, since in Arab society they are expected to be “virtuous” in order to marry. “It is ...

Students at Lagan College - Northern Ireland's first integrated school - in the 1990s. Credit: Alamy In the early 1970s, I was a pupil at a Protestant primary school in working-class west Belfast.

Have you ever laid in bed at night wondering how you'd run the Catholic Church? Or do you have genuine ambitions of taking over in Vatican City? If so, you ought to try Which Pope Am I?, our all-new ...