Welby: witness gently for Jesus, and wait until you're asked (most of the time)
There's always a danger when you pick up a comment piece from a newspaper that you glance at a headline and form an opinion from a crass summary of…
John Bingham
Boris Johnson’s ‘disgraceful slur’ against the Archbishop of Canterbury
The Prime Minister sat rather dejected in the House of Commons yesterday, and spent two hours iterating (and reiterating) how sorry he was for sharing the Cabinet Room of No.10 with a birthday cake on 19th June 2020. He often…
Should Christians in the public sector 'keep mum' to get on?
"Christianity is being subtly 'silenced' within the public sector in the UK because of a civil service culture which treats speaking about faith as 'not the done thing'," writes…
Mosque without minaret? Baroness Warsi spectacularly misses the point
What's the main problem with Islam? The mosque and minaret, or the Wahhabi-Salafist apprehension of Mohammed? Professor Sayeeda Warsi (of St Mary’s University, Twickenham) explains: “What I would like…
Anti-terror legislation will be used against teachers who oppose same-sex marriage
The Extremism Bill seeks to extend the powers of government and law enforcement agencies to confront and neuter what they perceive to constitute 'extremism'. One of its provisions is…
"Tory fury" over Church of England letter is a confected Tory tantrum
Each day when Parliament is sitting, the Duty Bishop in the House of Lords prays that the House should “Lay aside all private interests, prejudices and partial affections”, so…
Left-wing political bias in the Church is preferable to dumbness
One of the perks of my writing on Christianity, politics and society is that each year I am invited to the Archbishop of Canterbury's annual reception at Lambeth Palace…
If Sentamu opposes Free Schools, why is he opening and blessing them?
The Archbishop Sentamu Academy in Hull is bucking national trends for schools in deprived areas, and the Ofsted data provides empirical evidence. Five consecutive years of improving GCSE grades,…
A few rocky facts belie Sentamu's sandy statist socialism
The Most Rev'd and Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, has edited a neat selection of essays on the current moral state of the nation. Entitled On…
The political purpose of claiming 10% of bishops are gay
This is a guest post by the Rev'd Peter Ould - a Church of England priest, consultant statistician and former blogger with an interest in the topic of human sexuality…