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Staying in the fold is tough

11 Aug 2010:
Rebecca Jenkins: Can you keep Christ and give up being a Christian? Christians are just like other people: envious, fearful, resentful and way-too inclined to tear into others rather question ourselves
Ramadan around the world

Gallery (10 pictures), 11 Aug 2010:
Muslims from Israel to Indonesia mark the start of the Islamic month of fasting
The man who said we are machines

11 Aug 2010:
Andrew Brown: The career of an obscure enlightenment philosopher and doctor shows how little the prestige of materialism depends on evidence
Divine dispatches: a religion roundup

11 Aug 2010: Riazat Butt: Divine dispatches: McNally goes papal; Ashton Kutcher in Israel; Mother Theresa's missing documentary; Navajo Episcopalians; more nuns
Ramadan goes hi-tech with phone apps to help Muslims fast and pray

11 Aug 2010:
Ramadan apps lets believers browse the Qur'an and ensures they are facing Mecca at prayer time
Make Ramadan torture-free in Egypt

11 Aug 2010:
Osama Diab: It's Ramadan, but the Egyptian police continue to practise brutality and torture. This year, they should set a better example
Cordoba House and American values

10 Aug 2010:
Abdulrahman El-Sayed: Cordoba House is an exemplary response to those who ask whether our country can stick to its principles in testing times
Mormon, and feminist too

10 Aug 2010:
Tresa Edmunds: If you can make it through school refusing every drop of alcohol and cigarette, then challenging a sexist statement is nothing
This line on gay Jews is quite orthodox

10 Aug 2010: Geoffrey Alderman: The rabbis' 'statement of principles' on homosexuality is to be welcomed, but it contains little that is new
Good and bad news from moderate and militant Islam

10 Aug 2010: Michael White: My hunch is that this phase of Islamic militancy will eventually be seen as a defensive and temporary attempt to stem the modernisation of the faith, its adaption to science, rationality and respect for individual conscience. But that does not make it any less scary today
Women bishops of the future?

9 Aug 2010:
As the Church of England moves ever closer to allowing the ordination of women bishops, three woman priests talk about what it would mean to them
Integrity and Zakaria

9 Aug 2010:
Michael Tomasky: Fareed Zakaria shows what integrity means by returning his ADL prize
Orthodox attitudes to gay people shift

9 Aug 2010:
Mordechai Beck: A statement on homosexuality that has garnered more than 100 rabbinic signatures is a watershed for Orthodox Judaism
A disdain rooted in pride

9 Aug 2010: John Richardson: Can you keep Christ and give up being a Christian? I can understand Rice's position. But her desire to set herself apart, I would argue, owes a lot to pride
Is Tariq Ramadan too spiritual?

9 Aug 2010:
Andrew Brown: Tolerance is a political arrangement. But Tariq Ramadan talks about it only as a personal virtue. That's not enough