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17 Oct 2021: We commonly hear words such as the 'Muslim world' or 'Islamic world', referring to the Islamic community or the Ummah. This may give us a sense of a unified community. However, the Islamic community, with its 1400 years of history and spread

16 Oct 2021: The Ten Commandments is a strange icon in the modern world, and a much imitated one. Prior to the 2019 General Election, the Conservative leader Boris Johnson unveiled his own Ten Commandments. Ten promises that he would deliver on within a hundred

17 Oct 2021: Right at the beginning of the Bible, in a passage shared by Judaism and Christianity, the book of Genesis, chapter 1 verse 27, describes all humanity as being created in the image of God. It says: ‘God created the human being in His image, in the

23 Mar 2021: One argument to prove God’s existence is known as the ‘ontological argument’ —an argument which, by reason alone – proves that, the very idea of God as a perfect being means that God must exist, that his non-existence would be contradictory

17 Oct 2021: Nowadays, we often hear the word 'apocalypse' used in everyday speech, on TV and in films and computer games. And in reports about current events the word is sometimes used to refer to a large-scale catastrophe or disaster. Newspapers have recently

23 Mar 2021: My name is James Carleton Paget, and I lecture here in the University, in the New Testament and the origins of Christianity, and the thing I believe in passionately is trying to make Christianity plain to everybody in terms of the extraordinary

23 Mar 2021: Look through the window. Our world is in constant movement. Its cycles make life possible. We know that the human impact on climate and the environment may be disastrous, but we should remember that we also have old and diverse traditions of care,

17 Oct 2021: In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. The first three chapters of the Book of Genesis, are about the most widely discussed words in the whole Bible, especially in conversations between religion and science. They deal with the

17 Oct 2021: I'm Dr Tianyi Zhang, and I am a researcher in the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge. I'm interested particularly in philosophy of religion, and have focused a lot of my research on medieval Islamic philosophers. Two Islamic philosophers I would like

23 Mar 2021: Hello, my name is Dr Tim Winter and I teach Islam at the University of Cambridge. Islam is a religion which, like Judaism and Christianity, teaches that the entire world — in fact, all of space and time — is created by one God. Muslims are