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Welby resigns: crisis at the Church of England
After mounting pressure, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned. His resignation comes days after a damning report into the child abu…
1 year, 8 months ago
Did Christianity create secular humanism?
Since the election of an overwhelmingly secular Labour government, people who describe themselves as humanists have a spring in their step: for examp…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sale of the century: why is the Kirk selling off hundreds of churches so cheaply?
In this week’s Spectator, William Finlater reveals that some of the Church of Scotland’s most precious architectural heritage is being flogged off qu…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Pope announces 21 new cardinals. Is he trying to pack the conclave?
This month Pope Francis announced that he’s creating 21 cardinals, and once again his list includes unexpected names that will baffle commentators wh…
1 year, 9 months ago
Could religious voters in the swing states decide the US election?
The US presidential election looks as if it’s coming down to the wire in a handful of battleground states. Neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump has…
1 year, 9 months ago
How pistols in St Paul’s Cathedral shaped the science of sound
In the winter of 1951 shots from a Colt revolver rang out in St Paul’s Cathedral in an experiment designed to solve the mystery of how architecture s…
1 year, 10 months ago
Losing faith: will Labour’s VAT policy hit religious schools hardest?
In this week’s copy of The Spectator, Dan Hitchens argues that a lesser reported aspect of Labour’s decision to impose VAT on private schools is who …
1 year, 10 months ago
From the archives: An atheist goes on a Christian pilgrimage. Why?
Writer Guy Stagg threw in his job to undertake a pilgrimage to Jerusalem via Rome - choosing a hazardous medieval route across the Alps. It nearly ki…
1 year, 10 months ago
A Habsburg Archduke explains how not to be nasty on Twitter
In this week's Holy Smoke episode Damian Thompson welcomes back Eduard Habsburg, Hungary's Ambassador to the Holy See and also, to give him his famil…
2 years ago
Walsingham and the musical grief of the Reformation
The other day I received a press release about an intriguing album of keyboard music by 16th- and early 17th-century composers, three Englishman and …
2 years ago