Anglican clergy foment hate against Brexit Christians
"But the privilege of democracy is to vote. To campaign vigorously. To have robust and firm discussion," said the Archbishop of Canterbury to those gathered for the inaugural Lambeth…
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Mark Rylands mocked by fellow clergy for coming out as a Brexit Bishop
"It was beginning to seem like there would never be a Brexit bishop," began the blog post on 1st April this year, a date which was lost on the good majority of readers as they whooped and cyber-fist-bumped the…
Brexit may have spurred a few racists, but the heartbeat of the nation is unity and tolerance
"How can you side with bigots and racists?" "How can you support the vile BNP agenda?" "You're a Christian, for God's sake, and here you are sowing division and…
Brexit: a supreme act of foolishness perpetrated by racists, bigots and small right-wing men
Never in a decade of blogging has so much bile and vomit been spewed in this direction. Oh, we've had our fractious moments over the years, but nothing, ever,…
Independence Day UK: resurgence of democracy; restoration of sovereignty
It is the fissure of the state. The people have met the people: they looked and evaluated, and the greater soul has chosen to be more free, noble, ingenious…
Vicar says EU Leavers are all "a bit racist"
The Church of England is officially neutral on the matter of the EU referendum. By 'Church of England' here we mean the institution; not its pulpits and people. It…
EU immigration: Farage and Welby clash over "legitimising racism"
During his appearance before the Home Affairs Select Committee, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby insisted he was not supporting either side in the EU Referendum campaign. Well, for…
C of E priest says Labour's anti-Semitism is a right-wing plot, and Tories are racist
"Best wait for the vitriolic onslaught," tweeted Fr Simon Rundell, when he was asked politely and courteously if he would like to add anything or clarify his assertion that…
Muslim ghettos and the "muscular" approach to integration
When, a decade ago, the Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali was warning of Muslim 'no-go areas', where sharia police stalk the streets and the real police fear to tread…
Should Christians vote for Turkey?
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…
Corbyn's accommodation of Jew-hatred is a betrayal of Labour's morality
Jews have "big noses" and "slaughter the oppressed", and Hitler was a "Zionist God", according to Vicki Kirby, former Labour parliamentary candidate and now vice-chairman of the party's Woking…
EU Referendum: Welby asks the fairest questions of all
The froth masks the urgency of the substance; the heat deflects from the dominant paradigms of light. The EU Referendum debate is being reduced to a Tory pantomime of…
Boko Haram burns children alive, but no EU 'open door' to Nigerian refugees
Some two thousand miles away in Deir ez-Zur, Syria, Islamists have besieged the city of 120,000 souls. Women are raped in the street, men beheaded on the banks of…
Marsha Levine – the Cambridge academic who refused to answer Israeli child's question, citing BDS
Dr Marsha Levine was a fellow and senior research associate in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University, which "serves as an interdisciplinary hub aiming to provide…
Would the Dean and Chapter of Manchester Cathedral host and pray for Ukip?
When the Dean of Manchester Cathedral agreed to facilitate the march of the people against austerity during this year's Conservative Party conference, a simple matter of Christian hospitality to…
Murmur in Manchester Cathedral: Corbyn counters Conservative Party Conference
The Bishop of Manchester is neither a member nor a supporter of the Labour Party. We know this because he tweeted it. He lauds the Guardian for its superior…
Labour Friends of Palestine host Holocaust denier at Party Conference
Politics endangers the soul. Where there was once principle and conviction, there is compromise and obfuscation. Doctrine adapts and morality is murky. Truth is abstracted, or swallowed in bitterness.…
White trash? Court rules that white girls are worth less than Asians
Paedophilia, molestation, rape, grooming, 'white trash'.. Stories abound of the gangs of Asian (usually Pakistani) men preying on young white girls, believing them to be somehow worth less than…
Why does Jeremy Corbyn grasp the oppression of every minority except Jews?
"For too many on the Left, Jewish suffering does not touch them the way Muslim suffering or gay suffering or black suffering touches them," writes the discerning Stephen Daisley…
Planned Parenthood brands its critics "extremists"
"Just depending on the patient's anatomy, how many weeks, where it's placed in the uterus.. we're going to potentially be able to have some that will be more or less…