Anti-Brexit bishops jump on Boris burqa bandwagon
This isn't a post about Brexit; it really isn't. Nor is it a post about banning the burqa. It isn't even a post about Boris, or whether what he said…
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Rustat 1 – 0 Welby | Jesus College Cambridge must retain its memorial to Tobias Rustat
"Why is it so much agony to remove a memorial to slavery?" pleaded the Archbishop of Canterbury to Synod in February, as he bemoaned the fact that the Master of Jesus College Cambridge, Sonita Alleyne, a black woman, has to…
Jo Johnson’s muddled and aimless thinking about freedom of speech in universities
Universities Minister Jo Johnson delivered a much-trailed (..and here, here, here...) speech about the imperative of academic freedom of speech, which he says must be guaranteed on pain of universities…
Richard Dawkins: Oxford’s Christian Union is “predatory and nasty”
The 'Oxford University bans Christian Union' story has gone half way round the world, and it really shouldn't have. Oxford's Cherwell newspaper originally carried it: 'Christian Union banned from Balliol…
LGBT Pride London: police attempt to remove ‘Allah is Gay’ placards for causing offence
"Pride is full of placards saying 'God is Gay', 'Jesus had two fathers', as well as those mocking the church and priests and pope," writes Maryam Namazie, spokeswoman for the…
Safespacing the Church: revising doctrine to suit mental health
Mental health matters, right? Yes, of course it does. And the Church of England is right to focus on this often-neglected area of human flourishing and wellbeing, with speeches in…
Mrs Proudie: No disrespect in the safe space of Snowflake College, Oxbridge
Goodness! Though well-acquainted with the modern obsession with 'make-overs', I was nonetheless surprised when The Jupiter published photographs of Mr. Lincoln arriving in London to wish Her Majesty well.…
May we no longer say Jehovah's Witnesses are not real Christians?
Dr Shiraz Maher is a lecturer at King's College London and a Senior Fellow of The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR). His list…