religion

Can employers really ban the burka in the workplace?
Paul Kelly

Can employers really ban the burka in the workplace?

Following recent statements on banning religious clothing in the workplace, renewed attention has been brought on the UK’s legal framework on workplace dress codes

Letters: Pensioners like me are privileged to receive a triple-lock pension
Letters

Letters: Pensioners like me are privileged to receive a triple-lock pension

A Big Issue article on a Labour winter payments for pensioners U-turn gets readers talking

Letters: If billionaires stockpiled food, would we all be left to starve?
Letters

Letters: If billionaires stockpiled food, would we all be left to starve?

A reader writes that billionaires hoarding all the money should not be tolerated

Five things we learned from Pope Francis’ candid and historic Big Issue interview
Pope Francis

Five things we learned from Pope Francis’ candid and historic Big Issue interview

How fixing up forgotten churches can make a divine intervention in the housing crisis
Housing crisis

How fixing up forgotten churches can make a divine intervention in the housing crisis

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Buffer zones outside abortion clinics are step in right direction – but other problems persist
Abortion

Buffer zones outside abortion clinics are step in right direction – but other problems persist

Rowan Williams: ‘The challenge is whether religion is part of the solution or part of the problem’
Letter To My Younger Self

Rowan Williams: ‘The challenge is whether religion is part of the solution or part of the problem’

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry
Music

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry

How Sinéad O’Connor risked it all to speak truth to power – and inspired a new generation
Film

How Sinéad O’Connor risked it all to speak truth to power – and inspired a new generation

Faith healing: How churches offer reassurance in tough times
Churches

Faith healing: How churches offer reassurance in tough times

As Eurovision takes over Liverpool, ‘Izyum to Liverpool’ reminds us why it can’t be in Ukraine
Interview

As Eurovision takes over Liverpool, ‘Izyum to Liverpool’ reminds us why it can’t be in Ukraine

British Muslims are ‘disenfranchised at every level’
Cost of living crisis

British Muslims are ‘disenfranchised at every level’

Ramadan: How to support employees, friends and colleagues in the Muslim holy month
Ramadan

Ramadan: How to support employees, friends and colleagues in the Muslim holy month

Our Daily Bread: Father Alex Frost says it’s not just prayer we need to tackle poverty
poverty

Our Daily Bread: Father Alex Frost says it’s not just prayer we need to tackle poverty

Social media may be the new religion, but it hasn’t made us better people
Opinion

Social media may be the new religion, but it hasn’t made us better people

Author Jan Carson: Britpop, bible camp, Ian Paisley and me
Books

Author Jan Carson: Britpop, bible camp, Ian Paisley and me

What it’s like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid
LGBTQ+

What it’s like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid

How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound
Books

How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound

Why are millennial Catholics flocking to the church their parents deserted?
Opinion

Why are millennial Catholics flocking to the church their parents deserted?

Judaism has got a lot more complex in the age of the millennials
Opinion

Judaism has got a lot more complex in the age of the millennials