From New Humanist, in 2005 Russian artist Anna Alchuk was publicly vilified and put on trial for her involvement in the Caution:Religion! exhibition — three years later she drowned herself; visiting Israel just weeks before the current Gaza conflict, Sally Feldman found that rising religious bigotry is one of the biggest barriers to peace; thirty years after the revolution consumerism and political apathy dominate Iran, but a new generation may change that; Theodore Dalrymple on why being faith-less is no excuse for rewriting history; here are the Bad Faith Awards 2008. From Edge, does the empirical nature of science contradict the revelatory nature of faith? From America, a look at why a little unbelief is not always a bad thing; and a review of Sense of the Faithful: How American Catholics Live

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