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I once visited a school to help give a lesson on science and religion to some older teenagers. One of the pupils had sadly passed away from cancer a few weeks before and his classmates asked, “How God could let this happen?” At one point they started...

As I write, volunteers from a community trust are distributing food parcels to people who have been deprived of their usual ways of earning an income during the lockdown in Mutare, the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe. I became involved in raising money...

These days we have to find imaginative ways to worship, and Rachel Summers’ new book Wild Worship might be just what you or your family need. Today’s extract will help you celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day on Sunday 3rd May. I chose this piece...

Last week Sir John Houghton, a significant figure in the UK science and religion world, and part of the Faraday Institute’s wider network of colleagues and speakers, passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends in these difficult...

It’s difficult as a scientist to hear information that is fascinating, but which also involves so much suffering for other people. In one lab where I worked for a time as a student, scientists were finding out a great deal about how normal cells work...