Dying Underworld

Inside Britain’s Underworld

David Rose | UnHerd | 20th May 2025

For thirty years, hobbyist British cavers have been painstakingly exploring previously unknown territory "under a sheep-grazed meadow in Gloucestershire’s Forest of Dean". Down a vertical shaft that took months of digging to clear lies a cave system that extends for at least 20km. Among the chambers discovered is "the White Forest", which contains crystalline stalactites that look like Venetian glass (1,900 words)

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Is Theology Dying?

Beatrice Marovich | Other Journal | 11th June 2025

Despite stable enrolment numbers at seminaries and colleges, some theologians are plagued by the feeling that their discipline — academic theology — is "dying". Explanations for this offered here include: the wider decline of the humanities, the increasing polarisation of religion in American society, and the possibility that theology has always been dying and exists as a "nowhere space" (5,500 words)