The Catholic Church
The Truth About the Historical Jesus
The leading authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls draws a portrait of Jesus the Jew
A Loser Aims High
Good to be God by Tibor Fischer
Roger Bacon
Surely the man who can claim to be the world’s first experimental scientist and to have advised the Pope deserves a better reputation
Christianity, Secularisation and Islam
In the second in our series on religion and public life, a leading Dominican theologian argues that only a recovery of the Judeo-Christian tradition can enable Islam to find its place in Britain
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal