The French novelist-philosopher Albert Camus is known for his atheism and his philosophy of the absurd. But just before his death at the age of 47, had he discovered the God who makes sense of it all? Greg Clarke investigates.

Camus did not like being called an existentialist. Despite his objection, Camus’s name, along with his contemporary Jean-Paul Sartre, is closely associated with the movement whose view of life is readily summarized in the

Peter Singer’s ethical framework certainly demands a response from Christians. Andrew Cameron examines a book that attempts to do just that.

Imagine a world where it is wrong to kill mice, but acceptable to not want children.

In this world, there are no butchers’ shops, fish markets or hamburgers.There are no beef cattle or battery hens, and restaurants are basically vegan. Sports shooting and fishing are illegal, for shooters and fishermen are

Paul Brebner considers the internet and information architecture, and asks whether there is such a thing as ‘Christian architecture’.

Having grown up in a number of small country towns in New Zealand, my view of architecture was that buildings and city layout are always more or less the same—suburban 3-bedroom houses on acre blocks being the norm. It takes a trip to somewhere where buildings and cities were built in a different era, on different

Oliver O’Donovan has written a sharp new book which reshapes Just War thinking in a Gulf War II environment.

Ernst Juenger fought in the final German offensive of World War I. Here is his account of his unit’s advance:

The great moment had come. The curtain of fire lifted from the front trenches. We stood up. With a mixture of feelings, evoked by bloodthirstiness, rage, and intoxication, we moved in step, ponderously but irresistibly toward the

How do mobile phones, microwaves and rock music affect our relationships? A new book explores the impact.

"Who you are among the students is as important as your academic work", wrote one CASE Associate in an encouraging email. Her wise observation is supported by research being carried out by the Relationships Foundation in Cambridge, UK, under the guidance of Dr Michael Schluter. Michael was at New College earlier this year, delivering lectures

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Many a doctoral student might identify with Thomas Bunting, the central character of James Wood’s provocative novel, The Book Against God. Seven years into his philosophy Ph.D., Bunting is brought to a standstill by his failing marriage, his inability to tell the truth (he is separated from his pianist wife until she is satisfied that he has stopped lying), his unemployment, and his side project—an enormous atheistic journal known as the BAG, the

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