Those who care about public reason are routinely shocked by opinion polls and surveys showing high levels of credence given to the idea of intelligent design. The most recent poll purported to demonstrate that a majority of Britons think that it should ...
This year is being celebrated as Charles Darwin's year – the bicentenary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species. But 1859 saw the publication of a work just as influential and worthy of celebration, the contents of which are ...
Thanks to Pluvialis for the link. Reposted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/apr/28/sex-education-faith-schools "No parent or school should be able to prevent a young person receiving good, high-quality sex and relationship ...
Quite a lively debate has opened up on faith schools policy reform following the launch of Accord. What is clear from this is that those who justify discrimination in admissions and employment in state-funded religious schools are losing the argument ...
Few apart from than Odone can have noticed this dangerous development. Under Labour governments since 1997 more new state-funded faith schools have opened than under any other government, and there is no sign that this increase is being stemmed or ...
It is vital that children are taught humanism's answers to life's 'ultimate questions', says Andrew ...
The Salvation Army delivers larege parts oft he welfare system in Australia, as well as this London playgroup. Photograph: Linda Nylind In the welter of comment on public service reform, a dramatic change that has passed largely unnoticed is a ...
The state does not fund clergy to go about their business in the community at large and so the obvious question is why should it fund them in prisons, hospitals, or the armed forces? The obvious answer is that the provision of chaplaincy in these ...
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