Ink Scrawl

What would you expect from a book that tries to be clever (and only succeeds in eliciting a groan) with its title? I read Jason Lethcoe...

I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the powe...

The Vatican rejects the atheist notion that evolution proves there is no God as absurd.  Why? Because it is not "proven."   ...

People are considering "Facebook Fasts"  —  giving up Facebook for the 40 days of Lent  —  and joining groups like "Giving u...

Well, someone's gotta be on the other end of the string .

(Or)  To Ashtavinayak, Tuljapur, Kolhapur, and Back Again in 45 Hours Yep, rub your eyes, and read that again — Ashtavinayak, Tuljapur, Kolh...

Many writers have taken a story from the Bible, layered it with their ideas and interpretations, developed the characters, and fleshed an en...

What I always suspected: Benny Shanon's drug-focused reading of the Bible proves Moses saw God because he was stoned . What about other ...

The Vatican has stepped up its continuing efforts to save the souls of little misguided children and adults who read Harry Potter books. An...

Philip Pullman talks to John Mullan about plot, morality, language, and Milton in His Dark Materials in the Guardian book club podcast . Qui...

Excerpts from an interview with Philip Pullman : [. . .] "I'm fundamentally a storyteller, not a literary person, if I can make tha...

The deity at Kerala’s Sree Krishna Guruvayoor temple , astrologers claim, is annoyed with a change in dress code for women which now allows...

5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds. This map shows how the geography of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, ...

While the office continued to dominate my life for the last so many days, I did manage to sneak off to tour the eight Ashtavinayak temples o...

Note: Click the picture to open a larger image. I noticed this painted on a wall next to a small restaurant in Benares. The restaurant is ve...

Sweet Jesus ! It would have been a career killer.

. . . digested and recounted by Jeffrey Archer and Prof Francis J Moloney: Chapter 1 1. This gospel is written so that all may know the tru...

Some hardline Muslim clerics in Australia are encouraging their followers to cheat the tax system because they consider paying income tax c...