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  • 7 Feb 2012
    Charles Dickens: a writer for our Hard Times

    “Even the burial of his body in the Abbey was a species of theft when you come to think of it”. George Orwell's words came into my mind as I watched the ceremonies surrounding today's 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.

  • 30 May 2008
    Renewing the Vision

    At a time when religion is back on the political agenda, when politics seems more about ‘management’ than vision, when consumerism and globalisation have made state socialism seem outdated - and y

  • 23 Apr 2008
    New Muslim think-tank aims to challenge extremist ideology

    A new Muslim think-tank, Quilliam, which aims to bring together voices who oppose violence and extremism, and who want to explore Islam in a modern European setting, was launched at the British Museum yesterday.

  • 22 Apr 2008
    St George is no crusader
  • 26 Mar 2008
    The God elusion

    The current media-propelled debates about God are mostly hopelessly out of touch with their own intense fallibility, says Simon Barrow. He tries to explain why God-talk will always be helpfully elusive if it is faithful to what it seeks to point to.

  • 17 Oct 2007
    Anti-gay stance distances church from the young

    For many years now, high profile Christian leaders have been saying that homosexuality is destroying the church, says Tim Nafziger. It turns out that it may be their homophobia that is isolating the church from young people and many others.

  • 30 Oct 2006
    A church that still embodies Britain's radical tradition by Giles Fraser

    How the spirit of the Putney Debates lives on