There is something childish about the secularist movement in Britain.
In the News
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February 20th, 2012
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February 20th, 2012We have just received words from our contacts on the ground in Iran of an extremely dangerous turn of events for Pastor Youcef Nadarkhami.
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February 20th, 2012Gunfire and explosions echoed Monday through a city in northeast Nigeria as fighting between soldiers and members of a radical Islamist sect killed at least two civilians, authorities and witnesses said.
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February 20th, 2012
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February 20th, 2012Start your next meeting by silently reflecting on the contribution made by the Christian voluntary sector to your community.
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February 19th, 2012A devout Christian is to launch legal action claiming she was forced from her job caring for disabled children because she refused to work on Sundays.
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February 19th, 2012A lot of Britons think that America is on the brink of becoming a theocracy. The media is to blame. Folks like Louis Theroux and Stephen Fry have cashed in on the British taste for American craziness by producing countless documentaries about evangelicalism, while the press zeroes in on abortion and gay marriage as if they are the only issues that Americans care about. One gets the impression that if Rick Santorum wins the presidency, contraception will be banned, gays will go back into the closet and a giant effigy of Richard Dawkins will be burned on the Hill (if the latter does happen, I'll be roasting marshmallows).
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February 19th, 2012Today, the Church of England, the Catholic Church, the Buddhist, Jewish, Sikh and Muslim faiths, the British Humanist Association and professional RE teaching associations are joining forces to support a new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).
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February 19th, 2012When David Cameron told his party’s conference last autumn about his plans to bring in gay marriage, he said that this was because he was a ‘Conservative’ and believed in ‘commitment’.
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February 18th, 2012I was back at the Oxford Union last week in the snow, this time to oppose the motion ‘This House believes that the dividing line between religion and politics should shine brightly’. We were at the formal black-tie pre-debate dinner and the Union President, a friendly and confident young woman called Lauren, had called us all to stand while she prayed the traditional Latin grace. (Translated, it read “Bless, O Lord, us with Your gifts and us in Your service, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.”)