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Article
  1. AI
  2. Culture
A multiple exposure image shows a womans head and shoulders looking ahead, to the sides and above.

Am I a project or a person?

What we lose when we AI tempts us to refuse our limits
3min read
Article
  1. Church and state
  2. Creed
An archbishop crowns the king.

The new Archbishop needs to focus on the weird

Graham Tomlin
How an unlikely argument between the Pope and Madonna points the way for the new Archbishop of Canterbury
5min read
Article
  1. Creed
  2. Death & life
A mural on a side of a pub shows a footballer making a heart sign.

The derby, the downpour, and the death of a hero

Jonathan Rowlands
At Anfield, grief and glory collide
5min read
Essay
  1. Culture
  2. Film & TV
The Joker and Batman sit opposite each other in an interrogation room.

In an age of nihilism it's time to revisit The Dark Knight

J.W. Olson
Batman, the Joker, and the disaffected
13min read
Article
  1. Change
  2. Community
A render of a new housing estate showing a road, wooden fences and clapperboard hosues.

Poverty is part of the blueprint on newbuild estates likes ours

Imogen Ball
Building community is about more than how many bedrooms you’ve got
4min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Purpose
A video still shows a beer can thrown at a golf amid a crows

So we won the Ryder Cup. At what cost?

Graham Tomlin
When beer flies and etiquette dies, maybe we’ve mistaken sport for something else
5min read
Article
  1. Change
  2. Community
People sit in a busy cafe.

Why cafes are sacred spaces

Joshua Nurcombe-Pike
Socrates had the agora, we have the cafe
4min read
Article
  1. Art
  2. Creed
A spital galaxy coloured red, white and black.

How black holes illuminate love’s greatest story

Jake Lloyd
The universe’s darkest mysteries hold strange parallels with Christ’s Passion
5min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Economics
A sand drawing shows an unhappy child's face with the tide coming in from below

Millions of children go hungry in a country that dares to call itself godly

George Pitcher
The gospel of national greatness is less about grace and more about political grit
4min read
Article
  1. Culture
  2. Film & TV
Pascal ponders a steampunk TV showing Severance.

What would Pascal make of Emmy-winner Severance?

Rick Hansen
Locking ourselves away in a room still doesn’t work
5min read
Interview
  1. Culture
  2. Nationalism
Tim Farron stands on a conference stage with arms wide

Tim Farron: our politics is fragmenting, not polarising

Graham Tomlin
Responding to Christian nationalism and the politicisation of religion
14min read
Article
  1. Community
  2. Culture
A re-enactment of an ancient 'caveman' family sitting around a camp fire.

What makes us human?

Claire Williams
We've more in common with our ancient ancestors than we might like to think
5min read