Iain Provan questions common assumptions about the story of Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land.
Iain Provan questions common assumptions about the story of Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land.
Catherine Brekus reflects on the role the Bible played.
John Stackhouse notes that people are savage to each other – and religion can promote or constrain that.
John Haldane weighs the claim that religion poisons everything.
Karen Armstrong says we are all guilty.
Karen Armstrong says that we are violent creatures.
Karen Armstrong complicates an oversimplified picture.
Karen Armstrong says that calling this an example of a “holy war” is too simple.
Karen Armstrong notes how good we are at ignoring the log in our eye.
Karen Armstrong takes to task every taxi driver who tells her “religion causes all the wars”.
David Bentley Hart considers the death of Christendom and the rise of the modern nation-state.
Iain Provan helps us understand a world which did not divide the sacred from the secular.
