Migration

General Election 2017: Archbishops call for political stability and religious literacy

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued their Pastoral Letter to the Parishes and Chaplaincies of the Church of England for the 2017 General Election, and it's actually rather good. It's certainly an infinite improvement on the absurd tome…

EU Referendum: Sentamu preaches "moral responsibility" and Welby "peace and reconciliation"

June 12, 2016
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Don't you just love the Church of England's concept of 'neutrality' in the matter of the EU Referendum? A whole sea of bishops has endorsed the Remain campaign (that…

Faith leaders blast "isolationist" Vatican for refusing to join the EU

May 30, 2016
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Religious leaders from the UK’s main faith communities – including former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams – have joined forces to urge Pope Francis to commit the Vatican State…

Should Christians vote for Turkey?

March 17, 2016
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The most important 'deal' recently agreed by the EU is not the one negotiated by the UK for a bit of welfare tinkering, but the €6bn settlement with Turkey…

Stephen Crabb has no need to be ashamed of his Christian faith

December 19, 2015
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Who could have imagined just 15 years ago at the turn of the century that we would now be living in such unpredictable times? What seems like a permanent…

Migrants, refugees, dead babies and 'virtue signalling': WWJD?

September 7, 2015
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This is a guest post by the Rev’d Stephen Heard – Assistant Priest at St Mark’s Church, Enfield. He is a former civil servant with a background in political and…

Songs of Praise and the cardboard church of Calais

August 12, 2015
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"The Lord is here," intones the vicar at thousands of services of Holy Communion week after week. Except He's not: His Spirit might be brooding in the chocolate-box parishes…

Welby: "Europe as a whole must rise up and seek to do what is right"

April 20, 2015
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"What is your response to this, then?" barks BBC journalist Lyse Doucet, in the wake of hundreds of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, with dozens of rescue boats now…

A few rocky facts belie Sentamu's sandy statist socialism

January 16, 2015
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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…