Anger at the Grenfell Towers fire

There has been a huge and understandable outpouring of anger over the Grenfell Towers fire. Society endlessly struggles with anger, swinging between fear of the harm that anger can do, and fear of the harm that it does to suppress it. The twentieth century became increasingly tolerant of anger, compared to the Victorian period, and I am broadly sympathetic to that. I think the earlier fears of anger were often exaggerated.

In my latest blog, I discuss the anger that has been generated from the horrible incident at Grenfell Towers.

Why We Should Stop Talking about ‘Religion’

Religion seems to have changed massively in the course of evolution. There is a widespread misconception, popularised by the so-called ‘cognitive science of religion’, that religion has always been primarily a matter of beliefs about gods.

I get increasingly impatient with the way people talk about ‘religion’, as though all religion was essentially the same. It is such a broad category, and different forms of religion are so different from one another, that it really makes no sense to talk about ‘religion’ at all.

Read my article 'Why We Should Stop Talking about ‘Religion’ to see why I think the way we discuss religion and faith should change.