Robbie Young explores the rise of secularism and rejection of religion in Western culture.

Robbie Young reflects on the struggle between science, technology and religion.

In the second part of this mini-series, David Hickey continues to explore Karen Armstrong’s book The Lost Art of Scripture. Last month focused on the scriptures of Judaism and Hinduism; this month we move to the scriptures of China and Islam.

Elisabeth Öhlböck reflects on the nature of ‘trust’ and how current research shows how important trust is for our overall well-being.

David Hickey links a song and a book in a new series of reviews. Over the next two months he explores the song ‘Particles’ together with ‘The lost art of scripture’ by Karen Armstrong.

David Hickey reflects on the work of Iain McGilchrist and his book ‘The Master and his Emissary’.

This article contains extracts from a talk given by Piero Pasolini in 1979 to a group of young people.

It might be just illusion of trying to maintain control and govern everything that happens to us. Robbie Young’s reflection