
Though he met good people too, Stephen Bates, the Guardian's ex-religious affairs correspondent, says that the sheer nastiness he encountered among some believers turned him right off.
In due course, I intend to offer a more theologically grounded and ekklesially shaped response to the BBC's new opinion poll on the state of Britain's sense of morality. Meanwhile, here is my Guardian article.
Here's the story that didn't quite make it into The Guardian last Thursday.
Responding to an article by the president of the National Secular Society (NSS), which accuses “apparently harmless liberals” who practice religion of being "brainwashed" and “enabling the fa