A weekly roundup of life, faith and spirituality stories. This week (20 April, 2011): The Hunger Games, belief about God rises and falls, the new conversion, the gift of service, divine absence, and Silicon Valley's tactics of compulsion.

Former Nixon aid, prisoner reformer, and evangelical statesman Charles Colson has died. Gaoled in relation to the Watergate scandal of 1974, Chuck went on to found Prison Fellowship and become an astute thinker on the Christian worldview. In this interview, one of the last conducted with him, Chuck and I discuss his part in the

A weekly roundup of life, faith and spirituality stories. This week (20 April, 2011): the delusion of the infallible mind, starting the day well, the Passion, adoption, suffering and

Imagine for a moment that you’re a member of an organised crime ring with connections to corrupt city authorities. Imagine that you discover someone who knows your gang’s every deed—every scheme, every secret, every deal, all the money trails. One night you decide to round him up. He has to be silenced.