Martin In The Margins

‘It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.' – Alice in Wonderland I’ve always felt an affinit...

You may not agree with everything said about religion in this video , but in a week when religious terrorists massacred people simply becau...

Despite the extreme lapsedness of my Catholicism, and my disagreement with Benedict XVI on a number of issues including gay rights and wom...

A brief interlude between absences (we're back from Cornwall, but off again on our travels at the end of this week, and away for half of...

Where do you think this photograph was taken: somewhere in Europe or America, perhaps, circa 1960? In fact it's a picture of a record st...

...and that's not a headline you'll often see on this blog. But the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has actually said some...

I'm working up to a proper post on religion, secularism and the law, but I'm pushed for time right now and just wanted to splurge a ...

First, Austin Dacey (via B&W ) on the futility of seeing secular humanism as a replacement for religion: Humanists are right to think ...

I've got a lot of time for Richard Dawkins, but every once in a while he comes up with a rather silly idea. One example was his suggest...

Bob is peeved that I haven't responded to his 'five words' meme. My excuse? I was away last week, and anyway, his invitation wa...

This seemed like a good idea, recalling what I said here , but then this made me think again, reminding me of this criticism of this spe...

The revelations of industrial-scale child abuse in Catholic-run institutions in Ireland are truly horrifying. The victims have been made ...

As an antidote to the muddled thinking scrutinised in the last post, here's something to welcome with open arms. The Reason Project is...

I'm not sure I can be bothered with this, and those with a better philosophical training will probably make a better job of it, but here...

To mark the Pope's visit to Israel, yet another article on the decline of the Christian community in the Middle East: Christians used to...

One of the pleasures of reading the New York Times is that it's relatively free of the anti-modern, anti-western pseudo-leftism that cur...