Religion

The Prime Minister has deployed his Anglican faith to win back traditional voters who have deserted his party. It won’t work

“What impressed those of us who heard Father Halik was that Professor Tomáš Halik spoke much more forcefully than any British cleric would dare to do on such a formal occasion.”

“I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music.” So wrote Charles Darwin, conceding that his mind seemed “to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts” causing “the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend”.

A theologian with the wit to expose the laziness of the new atheists’ argument

As a Christian, I was deeply moved by a visit to the Holy Land

The economist knew the survival of civilisation rested on belief but couldn’t make the leap of faith

After finding fault with Britain’s sharia courts, Sudanese campaigner Nahla Mahmoud’s family was attacked and she was threatened online. Where are the police?