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Christian values fade without faith
IN A recent article in The Times (30 January 30), the novelist and biographer A. N. Wilson, who often comments on religious affairs in a characteristically trenchant way, criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury. Her fault was…
Bias affects how the world is seen
IF YOU show the same data to a large number of social scientists, it turns out that what they say the data show will depend on their political beliefs. Perhaps that is no surprise: science is done by people; our humanity is…
Analysis: Bible-reading = mass literacy?
IN OUR ever spiralling, splenetic, and spiteful culture wars, there is at least one thing on which we can all agree, whether we be woke Liberal or gammon Reform: reading is good for you.Spooked by a seemingly endless stream…
Analysis: Multilateral cause needs theology
WE ARE barely a month into 2026, and President Trump has already bombed Nigeria, kidnapped the President of Venezuela, and threatened to invade Greenland, while there have been mass protests in Minneapolis after the mass…
Analysis: Churches can prevent loneliness
WHEN, in 2023, the US Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy, compared loneliness’s mortality risk to smoking 15 cigarettes daily, he articulated what parish priests have witnessed for generations: people are dying not only from…
The charism of ‘weak establishment’
THE year 2026 looks set to be momentously significant, bringing threats to the security and well-being of both society and the planetary order. The focus is, more than ever, on finding wise and courageous leaders who will…
From Dear England to The Traitors
’TIS the season to be plotting, and Westminster is alive with speculation of a coup attempt against Sir Keir Starmer. After the scandals, infighting, and languishing economy of his miserable first year, Westminster pundits…
Harvested data await final verdict
DENSE, or quick? Or clever? Or weird? Computers come in all three varieties. The strange abilities of the third sort — with quantum computing — recall the Advent theme that Christ “will bring to light the things now hidden in…
How ‘woke’ morality revives the Puritan spirit
THERE is a maxim “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” History has always fascinated me; the mistakes and successes of our ancestors reveal so much about human nature and often have echoes in our own lives and…
Religious education is not confined to the classroom
IN THE aftermath of the publication of the Curriculum and Assessment Review in November — as a result of which religious education (RE) is to be part of the National Curriculum (News, 7 November, Comment 28 March) — I was…
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