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  1. Jim Wallis

    The Power and the Passion: Jim Wallis on the power of the cross.

  2. Marina Warner

    The Power and the Passion: Marina Warner reflects on the power of places.

  3. Andrew Adonis

    The Power and the Passion: Andrew Adonis reflects on people power.

  4. Nicholas Shakespeare

    The Power and the Passion: Nicholas Shakespeare on worldly power.

  5. Catherine Fox

    The Power and the Passion: Novelist Catherine Fox on the power of submission.

  6. Bonnie Greer

    The Power and the Passion - Bonnie Greer considers the power of names.

  7. Lucy Winkett

    Canon Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James's, Piccadilly, reflects on spiritual abandonment.

  8. Imam Asim Hafiz

    Imam Asim Hafiz, Muslim Chaplain to HM Forces, explores the abandonment created by war.

  9. Loretta Minghella

    Director of Christian Aid Loretta Minghella considers the abandonment of self.

  10. Benjamin Cohen

    Jewish journalist Benjamin Cohen reflects on his fear of being abandoned for being gay.

  11. Alexander McCall Smith

    Alexander McCall Smith considers how you can feel abandoned by society as you grow older.

  12. Baroness Helena Kennedy

    Baroness Helena Kennedy QC considers what it means to abandon being human.

  13. Sr Gemma Simmonds CJ

    Six well-known figures reflect on how the Lenten story of Jesus's ministry and Passion.

  14. Prof Tariq Ramadan

    Prof Tariq Ramadan sets out the philosophy of the individual and its absence in Islam.

  15. Martin Wroe

    Martin Wroe explores the individual being at its most divine when working in community.

  16. Prof John Lennox

    Prof John Lennox describes how God is encountered through science.

  17. Prof Linda Woodhead

    Linda Woodhead explores the emergence of new communities and social groups.

  18. 29/02/2012

    The Rt Rev Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford, asks if we are 'one alone or one of many'.

  19. 20/04/2011

    Mark Oakley, Canon Treasurer at St Paul's Cathedral, explores the conflict with God.

  20. 13/04/2011

    Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting explores the unmet appetite for justice.

  21. 06/04/2011

    A personal reflection on elements of conflict found in the story of Jesus' ministry.

  22. Feisal Abdul Rauf

    New York Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf explores the conflict between faith and identity.

  23. Austen Ivereigh

    Austen Ivereigh reflects on ending the cycle of conflict by becoming the forgiving victim.

  24. Lord Ian Blair

    Lord Ian Blair explores the conflict of religion in the public arena.

  25. Rev Dr Giles Fraser

    Rev Dr Giles Fraser reflects on the nature of sacrifice.

  26. Rev Prof Alister McGrath

    Rev Prof Alister McGrath on the relationship between natural science, faith and religion.

  27. Sr Elizabeth Obbard

    Sr Elizabeth Obbard explores how people's personal faith is shaped by formal religion.

  28. Maajid Nawaz

    Maajid Nawaz, co-director of the Quilliam Foundation, reflects on pluralism in society.

  29. Andreas Whittam Smith

    Financial journalist Andreas Whittam Smith explores the temptations of the financial world

  30. Will Self

    Novelist Will Self reflects on the relationship between art and religion.

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