Religion
‘To Know You More Clearly’: what the new catholic school syllabus means, one year in
The latest Catholic school syllabus reinforces conservative positions on sexuality, marriage and faith, discouraging pupils from exploring and asking questions.
#TradWife: the misogynistic movement based on cosplaying an American ideal
The #TradWife movement claims to offer women a simple, structured and idealised life. In reality, it reduces women to property, in service to white nationalist agendas
From the archives: Creationism and Noah’s Ark – founders on the facts
From the archives in 1987, Stephen Moreton looks at the creationist movement of the time, and the flaws with believing in a literal Noah's Ark
Could ASMR be a possible explanation for some new age and spiritual experiences?
Reports of autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, bear a striking resemblance to the way some people describe their experience of reiki... and of religion
How do we know what we know? The question that untangles Magisteria’s science and religion
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion, by Nicholas Spencer, paints a history of entwined attempts to understand, glossing over religion's response to conflicting ideas
The question isn’t whether Jesus was really Palestinian – it’s whether that even matters
Jesus was likely born in what is now Palestine, and he was Jewish - but neither fact should have any bearing on modern geopolitical conflicts
Can we really identify the ancient disasters described in ancient myths?
Many scholars have tried to identify the real events that inspired ancient myths - but with populations migrating, and stories changing, any connection to real history may be long lost
John Harvey Kellogg: the ‘Biologic Living’ theories of the inventor of corn flakes
Latterly famous for his breakfast cereal invention, John Harvey Kellogg was a religious zealot, eugenicist, and highly prominent early 20th Century quack
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