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  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Magisteria — science, religion and their tangled relationship

    Nicholas Spencer’s highly readable history explores changing notions of human nature, and asks: who decides who we are?

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    The very Christian roots of Oxford radicalism

    The paradox of secularism and the contemporary value of progress is that the origins of both lie in the seedbed of a religious past

  • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
    Steven Paulikas
    The Church of England can learn from Episcopalians on same-sex marriage

    Divisions currently roiling the global Anglican church may fade in the face of lived reality

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    We need to bring back the art of not doing stuff

    With Lent comes the opportunity to write a ‘to don’t’ list

  • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    Mormon church and its investment adviser fined by US regulators

    SEC claims Ensign Peak tried to conceal size of its $32bn equities portfolio via shell companies

  • Monday, 20 February, 2023
    Special ReportImpact Investing
    Religious investors put their faith in impact funds

    Shunning harmful industries is good. Tackling poverty and injustice is even better

  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    Labour Party UK
    Corbyn will not be Labour candidate at next election, vows Starmer

    Opposition leader welcomes watchdog’s findings on antisemitism and says party has changed ‘fundamentally’ under him

  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    Labour Party UK
    UK equalities watchdog ‘satisfied’ with Labour action on antisemitism

    Keir Starmer to hail ending of EHRC monitoring as ‘important moment’ in party’s history

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    OutlookNajmeh Bozorgmehr
    Iran’s dissidents offer a new template for martyrdom

    Protesters have shown the regime they are also willing to die for a cause — but this time it’s not religion

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    News in-depthPope Benedict XVI
    Pope Francis presides over funeral for ‘taboo-breaking’ predecessor

    Late Pope Benedict’s resignation set new precedent for future heads of the Catholic Church

  • Saturday, 31 December, 2022
    Catholic Church
    Former Pope Benedict dies aged 95

    First pontiff in 600 years to resign from his post became a focal point for conservatives in his retirement

  • Saturday, 31 December, 2022
    Obituary
    Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, 1927 - 2022

    German-born theologian became first pontiff to abdicate since the Middle Ages

  • Monday, 26 December, 2022
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia celebrates step change in Christmas festivities

    Conservative kingdom opens up to the Christian holiday as it pushes through a series of modernising reforms

  • Sunday, 25 December, 2022
    News in-depthNicaragua
    Nicaragua cracks down on Catholic Church

    Daniel Ortega’s regime targets last bastion of dissent with trial of outspoken bishop of Matagalpa

  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    Enuma Okoro
    Mary and the quest for peace

    The resonance of the Christmas story is underpinned by the courage of the women from Ukraine to Afghanistan and Iran

  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A search for meaning in secular times

    Religious worship may be in decline but spirituality remains undimmed

  • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
    The Big Read
    How England and Wales lost their religion

    Christianity’s grip has been slipping for decades — evidenced by crumbling chapels and dwindling attendance. Can new communities help the church regain relevance?

  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    Janan Ganesh
    The God-fearing case for immigration

    Religion in England is increasingly being propped up by immigrants and their descendants

  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    Balancing act of Indonesia’s morality law upsets activists and Islamists

    Ban on sex outside marriage disturbs rights advocates while angering conservative groups

  • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
    Chine McDonald
    Britain’s sea of faith remains, but its tides are changing

    Though less than half of people in England and Wales now identify as Christian, the pull of the Church is still strong

  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    Tony Barber
    Pope Francis sets off a contest over the future of the Catholic Church

    An unprecedented global consultation of the faithful is galvanising rival liberals and conservatives

  • Monday, 21 November, 2022
    ReviewTelevision
    David Baddiel: Jews Don’t Count asks why antisemitism often goes unchecked

    The comedian and writer challenges stereotypes and tackles thorny issues in a thoughtful Channel 4 documentary

  • Monday, 31 October, 2022
    Corporate culture
    Faith at work: the entrepreneurs who connect the spiritual and professional

    The rise of the ‘profit for purpose’ movement is inspiring a new generation of religion-driven businesspeople

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    Kanye West
    Kanye West’s anti-Semitic provocations reverberate across LA

    String of offensive comments from rapper and businessman coincide with burst of anti-Jewish acts

  • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
    Kanye West
    Music business scrambles to contain fallout from Kanye West controversy

    Spotify, Universal and Sony denounce rapper’s anti-Semitic remarks but keep his songs available to stream

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