Religion
What does the Anti-Racism report mean for the Church?
The Church of England cannot afford to kowtow to all of the demands made by the Church’s Anti-Racism Taskforce
Is incitement to religious hatred the new blasphemy?
In a new lecture for Gresham College, Ivan Hare QC discusses the law’s attempts to deal with hatred and vilification throughout history
The questionable innocence of Pontius Pilate
Steve Morris argues that this new book about Pontius Pilate helps us understand the limits of state and law
Richard Coles and the madness of grief
Michael Coren talks to his friend, Rev Richard Coles, about Coles’ forthcoming memoir on love, loss and grief
The pleasure of hating
Debates over what constitutes ‘hate speech’ reintroduce dangerous concepts of sin and morality into our common law
C. S. Lewis: The making of a reluctant Christian superstar
Rev. Steve Morris identifies Lewis’s experience at a remote World War Two airbase as defining the way of talking to regular people about the spiritual life
Why is atheism no longer cool?
How the New Atheists failed to make God go away
The Christian case for supporting abortion rights
Rev. Michael Coren says that the Bible simply doesn’t have anything pertinent to say about abortion, and the current extremism alienates people from the church
Tom Holland: A Christian hero?
Marketing Tom Holland’s ‘Dominion’ as a Christian product would be a kiss of death in the UK, but it works across the pond
Evensong at the end of the world
ASH Smyth sings choral evensong for Candlemas, in Stanley cathedral