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The New Humanism - Roger Scruton

Old and new humanisms in Britain and the British Humanist Association's advertising on buses.

© The American Spectator (Virginia)

Putting Man Before Descartes - John Lukacs

A senior historian argues that human knowledge is personal and participant, placing us at the centre of the universe.

© The American Scholar (Washington)

Poet Laureate Andrew Motion calls for all children to be taught the Bible - John Bingham

Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, has warned that every child should be taught the Bible at school or they will fail to properly understand culture and literature.

© The Telegraph (London)

Childhood ruined by 'me-first' society, landmark report claims - Martin Beckford

Children's lives are being blighted by Britain's selfish society, a landmark report has concluded.

© The Telegraph (London)

The Stem Cell Wars Are Over - Neil Scolding

Thanks to a recent breakthrough, human embryos need not be sacrificed in the cause of science.

© Standpoint Magazine (London)

I Think, Therefore I Am - An Individual - John Cottingham

Can we find a basis for recovery of "tranquillity of soul" with a contemporary worldview cut adrift from a sustaining metaphysics?

© Standpoint Magazine (London)

The Return of Religion - Roger Scruton

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God - Matthew Parris

Matthew Parris finds experience of development work in Africa embarrassing his 'growing belief that there is no God'.

© The Times (London)

Happy Easter Jurgen - Dr. Daniel N. Robinson

The 'methodological atheist', Habermas, asserts that 'the benchmarks of Western civilisation' have their foundation in Judaic law and Christian love. 'Everything else is postmodern chatter'.

© ToTheSource.org

Why Marriage is Inherently Heterosexual - Patrick Lee

A recent story in Newsweek claimed that the only reasons for opposing same-sex “marriage” are religious. But there are powerful arguments for marriage rooted not in faith but in reason.

Patrick Lee is the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Chair in Bioethics at Franciscan University of Steubenville and the director of the Witherspoon Institute’s Program on Bioethics and Human Dignity. He is the author, with Robert P. George, of Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics and is a contributor to Public Discourse.

© The Witherspoon Institute (New Jersey)