Published on
21 September 2010
Posted in Big Society, Civil Liberties, Conscience, Education, Public Policy, Religion
Conservative Party Co-Chairman Baroness Warsi was reported last week to have pledged that the Coalition Government will ‘restore faith to the heart of Britain’. Her comments came on the eve of the first ever State Visit by a reigning Pope to Britain. During his visit the Pope spoke strongly on several occasions about the role […]
Published on
8 September 2010
Posted in Education, Marriage & Family
Chris Bryant MP plans to introduce a bill today under the ten-minute rule attempting to make sex and relationships education (SRE) compulsory in state schools. It is rare for a ten-minute rule bill to pass onto the statute books, although since 1945 there have been sixty Acts of Parliament which began life in this way. […]
Published on
28 April 2010
Posted in Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conscience, Education, Liberty, Philosophy, Religion, Understanding Science
Science Versus Religion? The Insights and Oversights of the ‘New Atheists’ — Brad S. Gregory The assertion of the ‘New Atheists’ that the natural sciences somehow oppose all religious truth claims about the natural world is false. These atheists mistakenly treat all religion as one. In fact, some teachings are far superior to other blatantly […]
Published on
14 April 2010
Posted in Education, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Religion, Understanding Science
Putting Ethics Back Together Again: A British Perspective — John Haldane Much of our moral confusion comes from our failure to find a replacement for the Judaeo-Christian outlook that once animated the West. We need, and generally now lack, a philosophical understanding of human life. Science and the Decline of the Liberal Arts — Patrick […]
Published on
10 February 2010
A most interesting immigration case in which a judge in Tennessee granted political asylum to a German piano teacher and his family may have dented German-American bilateral relations. The family in question home-schooled its children, which is not generally permitted in Germany. The parents’ determination had had repercussions there: massive fines imposed, police intrusion into […]