Christianity
Radical Islam and its Invisible Victims
From Syria and Iraq to Iran and Pakistan, Christians and other minorities are being persecuted by Islamists. Can they be stopped?
To Be a Pilgrim
As a Christian, I was deeply moved by a visit to the Holy Land
They All Read The Same Bible
A superb new film vividly portrays the use and abuse of scripture by slavers to justify their evil acts
Saintly Networkers
Kate Cooper’s pacy tale of heroines, virgins and martyrs recounts the largely unknown role of women in shaping the early Church
Underrated: C.S. Lewis
Celebrating a convert to Christianity whose thinking was bold and writing imaginative
A Syrian Precedent
In 64BC, Roman general Pompey annexed a potentially volatile Syria. Then, as now, where Western concerns are paramount, intervention needs to be diplomatic and risk-taking
Arab Spring, Islamist Summer — What Next?
Three years after revolution first hit the Middle East, it remains unclear whether countries in the region will yet forge pluralistic democracies
Underrated: Søren Kierkegaard
Thanks to his leap of faith, this gloomy Dane has been neglected by the intelligentsia
Trumpet Voluntary
Diarmaid MacCulloch’s new book on the Christian Church is entitled Silence but it might’ve been better if he’d just kept quiet
The Middle Kingdom’s Problem with Religion
Faced with an astonishing revival of Christianity in China, Beijing is reacting with a mixture of alarm, repression and control
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts