Theo Hobson

Holy snowflakes: why young believers need to accept faith is controversial

14 April 2018 9:00 am

As well as writing about religion, I have always been an amateur religious artist. Recently I’ve been getting a bit…

Do do God

29 April 2017 9:00 am

This election was won two days before it was announced, on Easter Sunday. Theresa May put out an Easter message…

Our debt to the Tudors

28 January 2017 9:00 am

‘The Reformation was a process of both renewal and division among Christians in Europe,’ said the Archbishops of Canterbury and…

Act of faith: Sybil Thorndike as Saint Joan, c.1924, in George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan’

Why does drama always end up sneering at religion?

5 March 2016 9:00 am

 Theo Hobson explores the enduring appeal that religion has for dramatists

Act of faith: Sybil Thorndike as Saint Joan, c.1924, in George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan’

The rite stuff

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

Religion remains a surprisingly popular subject for plays. It’s partly because there’s already a core of theatricality there, in the…

How God could save Jeremy Corbyn

26 September 2015 8:00 am

If Labour’s atheist leader could show he was at peace with religion, it would go a long way to making his job more secure

Adultery websites should be as unacceptable as race-hate websites

13 June 2015 9:00 am

Why don’t more people object to online promotion of adultery?

Tinder went looking for fresh flesh – and accidentally found me

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Can mobile dating apps move beyond the promise of a one-night stand?

Why calling for an ‘Islamic Reformation’ is lazy and historically illiterate

7 February 2015 9:00 am

What’s wrong with calls for an ‘Islamic Reformation’

Rowan Williams has been reading too much Wittgenstein

27 September 2014 8:00 am

It used to seem rather obvious that the world was full of evidence for God. These days, theologians no longer…

A gangster called Capitalism and its vanquisher The Common Good

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Once upon a time, a powerful unkillable beast menaced the nation. It had to be tamed. It could only be…

The return of God: atheism's crisis of faith

19 April 2014 9:00 am

Dawkins and Grayling et al seem to have inspired a Christian fightback