Sounding Board

The sacred and the profane

Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement

Dumbing down the priesthood

Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away

The deep wisdom of rootedness

Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place

The baddies who don’t know they are

A process of dehumanisation enables the savagery unleashed during the October 7 pogrom

The road to Wigan’s tears

The Church’s drive to remake itself has been a pastoral and financial catastrophe

Clothes maketh the nation

How servants of the Crown dress is not trivial. It refl ects Britain’s decline

Blessed are the poor? Really?

Why won’t the wealthy C of E help impoverished parishes?

Uganda’s horrific anti-homosexuality law

Christians must stand against the Church of Uganda over its support for a horrific law

The middle classes are revolting

When barristers and doctors go on strike, revolution isn’t far away

Pray for the republicans

Rejoice in the sheer religiosity of the Coronation. It places the King above the political fray