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Writing tagged: ‘religion’

Newsletter No. 13: Bramblings!

Male brambling
Male brambling

bramblings · wheatears · Mary Beard · Beaker folk · Meera Sodha · recipes · John Tyndall · Eunice Foote · religion · Ben Myers · Austin Kleon · Walter Benjamin · giant sloths · Shetland · Neil Ansell · Charles Darwin

Published 18-May-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: archaeology, Ben Myers, birds, bramblings, Charles Darwin, John Tyndall, Mary Beard, recipes, religion, Shetland, wheatears

‘Spiritual’ won’t do

Trig point

In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.

Published 23-Apr-2017
Filed under: Featured Articles, Writing Tags: humanism, religion, skepticism, the Moor

Undermining religious tradition: a time-honoured religious tradition

Shotwick Church

Religious tradition has been being ‘undermined’ in Britain since recorded history began—most of the time by people of a distinctly religious persuasion.

Published 04-Apr-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: religion, secularism, skepticism

An atheist somehow manages to tell right from wrong

The Fall

To think of all the deliciously immoral acts I could have been getting up to today, if only it had occurred to me I needn’t be impeded by any sense of right or wrong.

Published 07-Nov-2016
Filed under: Writing Tags: atheism, humanism, religion

Book review: ‘Darwin and Lady Hope: the Untold Story’ by L.R. Croft

Darwin and Lady Hope
Darwin and Lady Hope

A dreadful book attempting to breathe new life into the long-discredited myth of Charles Darwin's deathbed conversion to evangelical Christianity. File under ‘Fiction’.

Published 15-Oct-2015
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: Charles Darwin, reading, religion

Book review: ‘A Book of Silence’ by Sara Maitland

A Book of Silence

A journey in search of the pleasure and powers of silence.

Published 03-Feb-2015
Filed under: Writing Genres: Nature & Place, People Tags: reading, religion

Hell or middle-management training? Ask Pope Benedict

The former pope reportedly sees management training as torment. As a conception of hell, it makes more sense than everlasting fire.

Published 09-Dec-2013
Filed under: Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Comment is Free, Guardian, religion

The iniquity of oblivion

Quakers' graves
Quakers' graves, Burton Woods

In the fudge-box-pretty village of Burton on my native Wirral Peninsula lie two graves, their inscriptions now utterly lost.

Published 16-Jul-2013
Filed under: Writing Tags: entropy, religion, Thomas Browne, Wirral

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