Holy snowflakes: why young believers need to accept faith is controversial
As well as writing about religion, I have always been an amateur religious artist. Recently I’ve been getting a bit…
Do do God
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
‘The Reformation was a process of both renewal and division among Christians in Europe,’ said the Archbishops of Canterbury and…
Why does drama always end up sneering at religion?
Theo Hobson explores the enduring appeal that religion has for dramatists
The rite stuff
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
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
Why don’t more people object to online promotion of adultery?
Tinder went looking for fresh flesh – and accidentally found me
Can mobile dating apps move beyond the promise of a one-night stand?
Why calling for an ‘Islamic Reformation’ is lazy and historically illiterate
What’s wrong with calls for an ‘Islamic Reformation’
Rowan Williams has been reading too much Wittgenstein
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
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
Dawkins and Grayling et al seem to have inspired a Christian fightback