A year with the Carmelites

At the end of the 1990s Michael Whyte put a note in the letterbox of the Carmelite monastery at Notting Hill asking if he could make a film about the Sisters there. The reply, a few weeks later, was cryptic: it was an interesting idea, it said, but now was “not the right time”. (Mark Greaves, The Catholic Herald)

Poetry can save atheists, says the other Hitchens

Well lo and behold, irony is still alive and well (even outside hipsterdom). Apparently Christopher Hitchens, famed Evangelical Atheist and author of God is Not Great, has a brother who is not only a Christian, but just as smart as Christopher himself. (Paul Burkhart, Patrol Magazine)

Functional universe implies a Creator: Sydney Cardinal Pell

Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell quoted Aristotle, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and the astronomer Fred Hoyle, who famously said he believed “the universe is a put-up job”, in a speech titled “Without God We Are Nothing”.
Cardinal Pell’s talk on Sunday, promoted by organisers of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas as a counterpoint to a talk [...]

One in three scientists believe in God: Survey

About one out of every three scientists in the United States profess to believing in God, a new survey has found - a similar proportion to that found in a survey from the 1920s.
That figure is strikingly lower than the proportion of the general American public that say they believe in God (83 per cent), [...]