The Rt Revd Christopher Herbert (Bishop of St Albans) defends the current system.
In the News
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June 24th, 2009
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June 24th, 2009
The first-ever survey of local opinion about a proposed mega-mosque proposed close to the site of the 2012 Olympics stadium has found that more people would prefer a mixed use of the site.
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June 24th, 2009
The BNP faces legal action over its "apartheid-style" membership policy that bars membership to black, Asian and Jewish people, the equalities watchdog has warned.
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June 24th, 2009
Many missiologists attest that Islam is the fastest growing religion in North America. The attraction of Islam to broad sections of our population is a stunning and challenging development. How are we to engage with this reality and reach North America with the transforming love of Christ?
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June 24th, 2009
A new Interior Ministry study has revealed that Muslims in Germany are much more integrated than previously thought: Around half are German citizens and 70 percent of women never wear a headscarf. There are also many more Muslims in the country than was previously estimated.
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June 24th, 2009
The BBC is to tone down the amount of sex and swearing screened following the 9pm watershed, because viewers were dismayed by the moral decline in programme standards.
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June 24th, 2009
If Christian and Jewish religious symbols are criticized and satirized, most people do not care. Nobody takes to the street to demonstrate violently against the ?culprits.? A long history of enlightenment and freedom of expression has tamed the majority of Christians and Jews. They accept religious freedom as a civilized fact of life.
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June 24th, 2009
One in three children in London live in lone-parent families, and one in four in low-income households.
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June 24th, 2009
Sorry, I wrote a piece against assisted suicide, on the back of revelations that death-clinics such as Dignitas in Switzerland were facilitating the deaths of non-terminal patients, but then disappeared on a trip (a short pilgrimage to Canterbury, as it happens). Some posters expressed frustration at my lack of response, which I agree must have seemed high-handed.
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June 23rd, 2009
A devoutly Catholic nurse at the centre of a crucifix row has resigned after hospital officials banned her from wearing the religious symbol at work.