Setting the Church of England free would be in its own interests, says Simon Barrow, as the disestablishment debate rears its head again following the General Synod debacle over women bishops. The Christian religion’s claim to truth and authority resides neither in state nor market, but in systems of belief and community which it should be capable of developing through bodies that are part of civic society.

A radical religion scholar from Canada is coming to Britain this week, to contribute to developing debates about the place of religion in public life.

The Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic’s recent ruling on 'religious registration' is very bad news for presently unregistered smaller churches and organisations, says Lubomir Martin Ondrasek. A more just solution is needed.