James O’Brien: Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax cuts are “against Christ’s teachings”.
"I am a Catholic by birth, or not by birth, by baptism, which means I've been raised very much in the Christian tradition," James O'Brien told his LBC audience of…
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Crusader Kirill promises heaven to Russians who fight in his holy war
While the world’s eyes are on Putin’s glorious victory in his annexation referenda, and his ‘partial’ mobilisation to sustain the barbarism, genocide, and imperial ‘terrors of the earth’ subjugation of Ukraine, it’s easy in an age of secularity to lose…
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Sermon on the Crown
The funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was always going to be a major televised event, and whoever preached the sermon at Westminster Abbey was always going to be…
King Charles III — Defender of the Faith
It really ought to be a big story, because it is a big story. And yet, because it is prosaic continuity, nobody has really noticed. But at the Accession Council…
John Cleese says Jesus was a psychopath
To be a psychopath in the vernacular of character abuse is to be mentally ill, if not quite mad or completely insane. The word conjures up all manner of personality…
Why is Norwich Cathedral ashamed of Jesus Christ?
The Rev'd Marcus Walker went to Norwich for a short little August break. "Never been before but it seems lovely so far", he tweeted. And then he entered Norwich Cathedral,…
Welby: most Anglicans recognise the Pope as “the father of the Church in the West”
As the Lambeth Conference drew to a close, the Archbishop of Canterbury waded into ecumenism, declaring he believed that most Anglicans in England now recognise the Pope as "the father…
Sandi Toksvig and her caricature Church of England
Sandi Toksvig is a patron of Humanists UK. She is also openly gay, and married to a psychotherapist called Debbie. Her relationship with the Church is strained at the best…
Lambeth Conference 2022 looked outward, sideways and upward, but the world only saw inward
From the four corners of the world the came, to kiss the shrine of Canterbury. Some 660 bishops from 165 countries representing dioceses and Christian communities from the global Anglican…
Welby’s chief regret? His carelessness over other people’s views
There's a rather beautiful interview with Justin Welby in Prospect Magazine, entitled 'Brief Encounter'. It reads like a quick-fire series of questions, giving the Archbishop almost no time to think.…
Church of England commits £3.6billion to ‘making Christ known’
The Archbishop of York, the Rt Rev'd Stephen Cottrell, has told the General Synod of the Church of England that the Church Commissioners will dedicate £3.6bn over the next nine…
Lucy Allan MP: “Is a Conservative welcome in the Church of England?”
Conservative MP Lucy Allan has challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury directly on his 'robust' intervention in Priti Patel's (presently thwarted) policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. "When the Church…
‘The Lady of Heaven’ is Islam’s ‘Life of Brian’ moment
'The Lady of Heaven' is currently being pulled from cinema chains because it is considered 'blasphemous' by certain Muslims. They have a perfect right to protest, of course: this is…
The Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
The Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II fell on February 6th, when much was said and written about her life of devotion, service, and love; of the light…
How ‘Christian’ is the excommunication of Nancy Pelosi?
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has been banned from receiving Holy Communion by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco. The excommunication has been decreed in his…
Net Zero.. racial justice.. mental health.. What exactly are cathedrals for?
Cathedrals can light the way to Net Zero, says the Rt Rev'd Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich and the Church of England's lead Bishop for Environmental Affairs. And he set…
Martyn Percy leaves the Church of England
In the glorious Chapel of Exeter College, Oxford, on the Feast Day of St. Matthias the Apostle on Saturday 14th May, the Very Rev'd Professor Martyn Percy preached his final…
Baby P and the legal politics of parole which shames his memory
Baby P was Peter Connelly. He was born on 1st March 2006, and died on 3rd August 2007. That's him above. A lovely little blond haired, blue-eyed baby boy, reaching…
How many millions of asylum seekers should the UK welcome?
Building on his Easter sermon which condemned (rather robustly) Priti Patel's plan to send Channel migrants to Rwanda, the Archbishop of Canterbury has written a comment piece for the Telegraph…
Easter Day: ‘He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.’
He is risen! Hallelujah! Still the earth resounds this Easter Day with the joy of that seismic irruption 2,000 years ago. We have passed from death to life. Just as…