Not believing, not belonging: “census Christians”
‘Believing without belonging’ has been the slogan of those who say that, although actual church attendance has fallen to negligible…
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Council prayers in summary
Coming home from the Radio 4 Sunday programme just now from talking about council prayers for probably the last time…
Bizarre-The Prime Minister on God
The BHA has criticised the David Cameron’s weird speech concerning ‘Christian morals’ and society. Here’s what I said: ‘As a simple factual…
Giving evidence on Bishops
Film of giving evidence yesterday on Bishops in the Lords. Rowan Williams ran over so we were cut short! …
Education: a humanist perspective
(Note: RE Today has been publishing a series of article on the concept of education from different religious and philosophical…
Doing good is not the preserve of the religious
This week’s question on The Guardian’s Comment is Free Belief section is ‘Do Believers make Better Citizens?’ This is what…
Christians and the Riots
I wrote a letter to The Sunday Telegraph last week about this letter which they published from a group of…
The EHRC’s stance on religious rights undermines its credibility
The totally false narrative of Christians being persecuted has gained a surprising new advocate in the form of Trevor Phillips,…