3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (258+ words) The police are rightly under intense scrutiny at present for their rejection of the Peelian principle of enforcing the law impartially between ethnic groups ‘without fear or favour’, thanks to their wholesale acceptance of DEI and critical race theory. There…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (597+ words) Pope Leo XIV has just passed the first great test of his pontificate. He has published a thoughtful encyclical on a controversial topic that (a) does not contain whole sections obviously farmed out to progressive lobbyists; (b) is not stuffed with semi-literate…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (580+ words) Easter is being celebrated by millions of families across our country. It’s one of those moments when we should come together, pause and remember what really matters. As a mother with a very busy job, I value this time with…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (319+ words) ‘No one pretends that modern services will fill the churches. But adult converts ought to be able to step naturally into being worshippers. How absurd that a convert should be warned to undergo cultural orientation before he comes to church....

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (189+ words) Granted, I was not the most obvious person to appreciate the installation of Sarah Mullaly in Canterbury, even though I think her a splendid Christian pastor and indeed, an exemplary Christian. Her kind, homely face radiates charity and good will;…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (258+ words) In my experience, instead of behaving as if they were subject to God and his moral requirements, ‘woke’ prophets conduct themselves like little gods, subject to none but themselves, tyrannical and merciless Exhibit B: from June 1940 when France fell, to…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (295+ words) Hodder & Stoughton, pp. 356, £25 A familiar defence of Anglicanism holds that flowers of principle bloomed in the mucky soil of compromise. Yes, this idea runs, the Church of England that evolved from Henry VIII’s marital strife was indeed a theological hotchpotch;…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (306+ words) Bloomsbury, pp. 256, £20 Headline, pp. 320, £25 New Modern, pp. 400, £25 What did David Bowie mean by ‘No confessions/ No religion’ in his lyrics to ‘Modern Love’? Peter Ormerod proposes what at first seems an unlikely theory – that Bowie was talking about Gnosticism, the…...