She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.… Read the rest

Dr Mohini Giri works to rescue Indian widows from living death.… Read the rest

God didn’t do it, he wasn’t there at the time, and besides he’s sorry.… Read the rest

Article 37 of Maryland’s constitution provides that “no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God”… Read the rest

She rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa – poor women. … Read the rest

Chris Bertram asks why the British left reacted the way it did.… Read the rest

God is silent and inert, the evidence is inadequate, and the universe is not the one predicted.… Read the rest

The strongly patriarchal nature of South Asian societies ensures even worse treatment for lesbians than for gay men.… Read the rest

Being gay in Bangladesh isn’t easy.… Read the rest

On atheism and evidence for God… Read the rest

I want to know, and many thousands of Muslim girls and women have a right to know, why understanding and infinite tolerance is practised with particular cultural traditions that are clearly oppressive of women.… Read the rest

The sequences used in Sheldrake’s research are not properly randomized. … Read the rest

Foucault cited Borges, but some of his followers cite the encyclopedia as fact.… Read the rest

Green belts, trees, women, poverty, empowerment, corruption, resistance.… Read the rest

I also strongly disagree with the implications of your statement that faithfulness and loyalty to the church and church leaders never permits expressions of disagreement, or questioning of our church leaders – especially in an academic setting.… Read the rest

The impact of censorship is in fact to undermine progressive movements within minority communities.… Read the rest

She refused to perform illegal abortions, so three men assaulted her… Read the rest

The Seville Statement on Violence was written in the language of sociopolitical activism, not that of science.… Read the rest

Peer-review committee said he hadn’t provided ‘adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of evolution, and not intelligent-design theory, was correct.’… Read the rest

Jesus is reading The Philosophers’ Magazine.… Read the rest