Christianity
We Abandon Christians in the East At Our Peril
Radical Islam is growing in Muslim countries that openly persecute their religious minorities. The West has so far turned a blind eye
Census That Revealed a Troubling Future
Anyone who voiced concern about the rate of immigration into Britain was branded a racist. They weren’t racist. They were right
From Jesus Sect to Imperial Faith
Two new works by Geza Vermes and Peter Brown eloquently and enthusiastically chart the progress of Christianity from Jesus Christ to the height of the Byzantine empire
Mediterranean Metamorphosis
For the sake of the euro, the peoples of southern Europe have turned their backs on the sea that once gave them prosperity
How to Save Marriage From Hitting the Rocks
Couples don’t take their wedding vows seriously when they can get out of matrimony more easily than their mortgage
Defender of the Faith
Book review of Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societies by Marcello Pera
Jews, Christians and Judaeo-Christians
The earliest disciples of Jesus were observant Jews, but the story of these Jewish Christians and their distinctive doctrines has been obscured by the Gentile church that supplanted them
Promise and Redemption
Book review of Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Holier than Thou
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch and A New History of Early Christianity by Charles Freeman
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