Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible
The good book should be read as a great work of literature – but it is not a guide to morality, as the education secretary Michael Gove would have us believeFor some reason the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK) was not approached...
Richard Dawkins the arch-atheist backs Michael Gove’s free Bible plan
Author of The God Delusion says providing free Bibles to state schools is justified by its impact on the English languageIt sounds like one of the most unlikely alliances of recent years. Richard Dawkins, arch-atheist and scourge of the praying classes...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
ok Festival aims to challenge the dominance of south Manchester
The festival has been set up to celebrate the authors and independent businesses that are thrivingAn innovative literary festival is taking place in north Manchester that aims to challenge the skewing of cultural events south of the city.The inaugural ...
Promised land
This week, on a visit to the UK, Marilynne Robinson came along to the Guardian Review Book Club to talk to Professor John Mullan about her novel Gilead. Set in rural Iowa, it is the letter of aging congregationalist minister John Ames to hisyoung son f...
Texas’s war on history | Katherine Stewart
Christian-nationalist zealots are trying to rewrite US history, airbrush slavery and enshrine creationism in Texas schoolsDon McLeroy, chairman of the Texas State Board of Education from 2007 to 2009, is a "young earth" creationist. He believes the ear...
Texas’s war on history | Katherine Stewart
Christian-nationalist zealots are trying to rewrite US history, airbrush slavery and enshrine creationism in Texas schoolsDon McLeroy, chairman of the Texas State Board of Education from 2007 to 2009, is a "young earth" creationist. He believes the ear...
John Donne, priest and poet, part 1: love, conscience and martyrdom | Roz Kaveney