Religion
A letter to Jesus
Frederic Raphael poses some pertinent questions to the son of God
Islamophobia and the suicide of the West
In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia
Reflection in Advent
I am a half-Jewish product of artificial trees, bagels, White Hart Lane, and of two people who knew little of theology but everything of God’s love
Vince Cable’s troubling views on China
Why is Cable so keen to deny the vast ethnic prejudices of the Chinese regime?
The meek inherit nothing
Islamism is increasingly held not to be a deviant from Islam, but an orthodox aim of the “religion of peace”
Defender of the faith
Daniel Johnson remembers Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, wise and generous friend, guide and mentor
Confessions of a dirty pilgrim
It doesn’t always pay to follow the most organised and efficient path
Our national spiritual leaders have fallen short
Why aren’t churches straining at the boundaries Caesar has fenced them off with?
The thorny problem Christianity and Judaism never address
Why do Christianity and Judaism still find it so hard to get along?
A double American Awakening
Katrina Gulliver delves into two new publications entitled ‘American Awakening’, and discovers that one is an exhortation, the other an ironic description of the current process of politics and society