The Devil's Whore fails to acknowledge the role of religious passions in the Civil War

The leader of Norway's Progress Party, Siv Jensen, has a good chance of winning next year's election. In an interview with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson, she explains her views; Bruce Bawer explains the background to her meteoric career

The story of Georges Lemaître shows how cosmology moves in mysterious ways

The analytic philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe was able to reconcile her field with her faith, without "compartmentalising", or compromising either

The West has adopted a disturbingly complacent attitude towards those who consistently advocate a "world without Israel"

Until the Vatican opens its archives, speculation about Pius XII's failure to condemn the Holocaust should not be used to indict all religion

In the age of the text-message, British gravestones are becoming less austere

Alternative therapy and made-up pagan rituals find their devotees among supposedly sophisticated city-dwellers

The story of al-Qaeda's lost leader, Abdullah Azzam, illuminates the murderous nature of global jihad

The deadliest but least understood Middle Eastern faultline is between Sunni and Shia