My Sally Rooney conversion
I tried to dislike the writing of Sally Rooney. But I failed. I retain some resistance to Sally Rooney the…
Is Channel 4's sex obsession really a 'public service'?
Is Channel 4 a public service broadcaster that should be saved from privatisation? Today’s Queen’s Speech, which lays the groundwork…
Dostovesky and Putin’s useful idiots
When I was 17 I heard the name Dostovesky, and was enthralled. Just the name felt so glamorously intellectual, so…
The trouble with Putin's Christian Orthodoxy
If you are worried about the uncertain fate of democracy in today’s world, what should you do? Become a human…
Divided, we stand
Anglicans need to agree to disagree
A Christmas prayer
Dear God, Please help me to keep it together this Christmas. For it is a testing time as well as…
Why I’m paying my daughter to go to church
Why I’m bribing my daughter to get confirmed
Does ‘white privilege’ exist?
On Wednesday Radio 4 aired a programme called White Mischief,which promised to trace ‘where whiteness came from and how its…
Why can't men write about sex?
Not long ago I was a regular Tinder user. Having heard that gingers were romantically incompatible, I decided to mix…
Can we talk about Emma Raducanu's Christianity?
I’ve just been looking at photographs of Emma Raducanu again, this time focusing on her upper chest. She usually wears…
The Church of England is missing a trick on climate change
Justin Welby urges us, echoing Deuteronomy, to ‘choose life’, so that our children may live. It is an apt use…
The fight for the future of the Church of England
The fight for the future of the Church of England
Christmas raises the most basic political question
A few years ago, around this time of year, I overheard a nice exchange in a charity shop (I was…
I'm bored of Martin Amis
To say that Martin Amis exemplifies the elevation of style over substance is like saying that Donald Trump is a…
Will churches open their doors as lockdown eases?
The grumbling of high church clergy should now lessen a bit. They were complaining, in some cases furiously, about the…
How Christians feel at Christmas
Imagine being in love with someone who ignores you eleven months of the year, then suddenly seems really into you.…
Holy snowflakes: why young believers need to accept faith is controversial
As well as writing about religion, I have always been an amateur religious artist. Recently I’ve been getting a bit…
Why does drama always end up sneering at religion?
Theo Hobson explores the enduring appeal that religion has for dramatists
How God could save Jeremy Corbyn
If Labour’s atheist leader could show he was at peace with religion, it would go a long way to making his job more secure
Adultery websites should be as unacceptable as race-hate websites
Why don’t more people object to online promotion of adultery?
Tinder went looking for fresh flesh – and accidentally found me
Can mobile dating apps move beyond the promise of a one-night stand?
Why calling for an ‘Islamic Reformation’ is lazy and historically illiterate
What’s wrong with calls for an ‘Islamic Reformation’
Rowan Williams has been reading too much Wittgenstein
It used to seem rather obvious that the world was full of evidence for God. These days, theologians no longer…
A gangster called Capitalism and its vanquisher The Common Good
Once upon a time, a powerful unkillable beast menaced the nation. It had to be tamed. It could only be…
The return of God: atheism's crisis of faith
Dawkins and Grayling et al seem to have inspired a Christian fightback
