My earliest reading memoryThe first books I remember were from The Village with Three Corners series Sheila K McCullagh. I loved the – literally – colourful characters, like Johnny Yellow Hat. I... Read more »
At the heart of this strange, perhaps rather poignant, book is the biblical question: “What must I do to be saved?” Not in the crude sense of how to secure a place... Read more »
In 1553, a community of exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had found refuge and patronage in the northern Italian city of Ferrara did something that would have been unthinkable, and very... Read more »
Gary Shteyngart is the observational standup of American letters, a puckish, playful Russian-born author who views the US through the eyes of an inquisitive tourist. The immigrant melting pot of New York... Read more »
Leila Aboulela has won this year’s PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women. The prize is awarded to a writer who, in the words of... Read more »
Faith leaders denounce US book burning as hate-fuelled intimidation May 15 2025 A group of faith leaders in Ohio denounced a recent alleged hate crime in the state, in which a man... Read more »
Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form “church” in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the church? To what extent is Christian faith in community with... Read more »
In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul’s... Read more »