The idea seems to be for the Vatican to keep tabs on scientific progress. Not to denounce it from afar, but to be in the thick of thin...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/arch-sceptic.aspxFri, 27 Apr 2012 12:09:50 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/arch-sceptic.aspxWithin a fortnight of one hairy lefty announcing his retirement, another hairy lefty trumpeted his own return to the front line of public life. Two more contrasting figures than Archibishop Rowan Williams and MP George Galloway it is difficult to imagine. And yet both shed light on the evolving tensions between religion and progressive...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/apr-2012-/columnists/girding-loins.aspxThu, 08 Mar 2012 11:26:34 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/apr-2012-/columnists/girding-loins.aspx

Christians are not obsessed with sex, the Christians in Parliament group insist several times in their recent Clearing the Ground report. But as Augustine's 'grant me chastity and continence - but not yet' reminds us, Christianity has sexual issues...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/mar-2012/columnists/building-temples.aspxWed, 08 Feb 2012 11:11:20 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/mar-2012/columnists/building-temples.aspxLast year, A.C. Grayling gave the world a non-religious Bible. This year, Alain de Botton is saying that: 'it's time atheists had their own versions of the great churches and cathedrals'.

De Botton's argument is not that atheists need personal religious faith, but that the practical and public side of religion could provide a ...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/janfeb-2012/columnists/take-the-bishops.aspxWed, 08 Feb 2012 11:10:57 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/janfeb-2012/columnists/take-the-bishops.aspxThe most die-hard Anglicans, if there are such things, must feel some sympathy for secularists campaigning to remove the bishops from the House of Lords. If you had to invent the British political system from scratch you'd struggle to think of any reason to include them. But the same applies to large swathes of the British political li...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/dec-2011/columnists/pink-pound.aspxTue, 15 Nov 2011 10:59:28 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/dec-2011/columnists/pink-pound.aspxThe ideology behind Nazism's defining act of evil was derived from the anti-semitic demonology of European Christendom. The Vatican's grudging 1998 apology for its highly equivocal stance during the Holocaust acknowledged that. As such, you'd think Christians would give Nazism a wide berth, but some can't help themselves. One such is A...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/nov-2011-/columnists/the-real-thing.aspxFri, 21 Oct 2011 11:41:53 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/nov-2011-/columnists/the-real-thing.aspx

Atheism has 'become Pepsi to the Coke of religion', a rival product differing in little but its branding. So argued Luke Bretherton in a recent article. In market terms, this comparison is generous to atheism. Christianity is more popular than Coke: it has ...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/oct-2011/columnists/pregnant-pause.aspxThu, 08 Sep 2011 12:29:36 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/oct-2011/columnists/pregnant-pause.aspx

The proposed Dorries/Field amendments to the NHS bill are nothing to do with Christianity. We know this because Dorries herself insisted it was true. She is 'pro-woman', and those who perceive a religious agenda behind her actions are misrepresenting her. T...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/summer-2008/commentary/war-and-peace.aspxMon, 11 May 2009 16:22:16 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/summer-2008/commentary/war-and-peace.aspxTina Beattie, a professor of Catholic Studies, and Michael Snape, a military historian, discuss Luke 6:27 - 31.

TINA BEATTIE: This passage profoundly challenges us about when and how...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/june-2008/commentary/family-matters.aspxMon, 11 May 2009 15:28:44 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/june-2008/commentary/family-matters.aspxLisa Sowle Cahill, Mary Stewart van Leeuwen, David Balch, Pamela Couture and Don Browning discuss differing Christian responses to the idea of family.