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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Catholic church in Northern Ireland defends the expensive need for a separate education system on the grounds that Catholics are believers who need faith schools in which their catholic ethos is affirmed. Think again. It is painful to say it and it is not what I wanted, but the case against academic selection in [...]

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Empty churches

Posted in Politics, Northern Ireland, Religion, tagged , on October 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »

BBC discussion on religion The BBC has been running a series of items on the decline of religion in Ireland. They invited me onto a podcast panel and this is the end result. I thought they had pulled me in because they had read my new book, but no; just a coincidence.

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Waking the Dead

Posted in Religion, tagged , , on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wee Fergus inched gingerly through the room to the coffin for a look at his grandad, found the waxy corpse interesting for about a minute then went out to play with his ball in the garden.

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Back from Ottawa, where they were talking about fear

Posted in Religion, tagged , on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

At the recent Ottawa book festival, the theme of many of the writers was fear. This is the report I did on it for BBC Radio Ulster.

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The Creationists are Coming!

Posted in Religion, tagged , on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What university’s science department is going to employ a researcher who would rather look into the Bible for answers than down a microscope?

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