September-October issue

Contents 124:

LOVE AND JOY AT STORMONT

Myrtle Ewing celebrates a rare event

UPROOTING SECTARIANISM

Brian McClinton reports a CSI – Crime Scene Inactivity

SECULAR EDUCATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Jane Donnelly demands equal protection for all children

HOT TOPICS

Protest Pope Benedict; HAI at Aras; Assisted Dying

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Richard Craig on tolerance in Belfast and bigotry in Africa

COHABITATION AND THE CIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACT

Peter O’Hara suggests some changes in the new Irish law

FRANCIS BACON’S ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

Brian McClinton on the inventor of the idea of progress

BEYOND BELIEF

Ann James addresses the Merriman Summer School

CATHOLICISM IS DEVIL WORSHIP

But what religion isn’t? asks William Harwood

CARITAS IN VERITATE

Dick Spicer breaks open a curate’s egg

CLINGING TO A ROCK

Stuart Hartill: Tynwald Day; Newman; Assisted Suicide

POETRY CORNER

LETTERS

PROSPERO’S MEDIA DAIRY

BOOKS: Complaint; Nothing to Lose; Menopausal

Palestine; Charles Darwin’s Evolutionary Writings

BACK TO BIBLICAL BASICS

FILM: Agora

BAN THE BURQA?

Sangeeta Mall looks beneath a symbol of oppression