Theology
A God-shaped hole
Our thought needs theology as much as our hearts need transcendence
Why are Christians hung up about Sarah Mullally?
An explanation for those outside the church
Keeping the faith
It is as if Aquinas himself occupied the timeless eternity he reserved for God
The Council of X
For Stewart, theology is a closed book. Vance just tore it open
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
The problem with Parris
Muddle-headed midwit journalists should stop dabbling in armchair theology
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
Unexpected music and a crisis of theology
The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion
Passed with a synod and a wink
Putting matters theological to a vote might seem odd, but it actually makes sense
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment