Democracy observers were dismayed in January when Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads – announced that ...

The Church of England is in crisis once again, following the recent resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. As the ...

To many evangelicals, Trump is not just a president but a messiah. How did he gain such mythic power, and where will it lead?

Campaigners want assisted dying to be available to those who are suffering from intolerable physical conditions ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

into the wriggling earth for a rainbow with an honest spade. Dannie Abse, “Letter to Alex Comfort” (1977) From 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, a group of poets and musicians began to ...

Prequels often feel unnecessary; they indulge in gratuitous over-explication of things that never needed to be explained. Not so with Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution, a prequel to his Southern Reach ...

The guides at Piuval guesthouse take visitors out on daily jaguar-watching safaris. Credit: Apolline Guillerot-Malick The hot, humid air greets me as I step out of Cuiaba’s airport, in Brazil’s ...

Not long ago, religion seemed to be in terminal decline. But, as Paul Seabright points out in his impressive new book, it is now going from strength to strength. Local cults or “ethno-religions” may ...

Matthew D. Taylor is a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, and the author of "The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is ...