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Letters
Paradise lost Sir: After reading Jonathan Beswick (‘Critical mass’, 16 January) I am writing to express the shame I feel…
When will Britain take a stand against Pakistan?
Well, now that we’re all fired up about Britain’s moral role in the world courtesy of Theresa May, who is…
I know why Welby is so worn out
Justin Welby is having a holiday and people are unhappy about it. He plans, in May, to take a three-month…
High life
New York Here we go again, the annual holiest of holies is upon us, although to this oldie last Christmas…
Perfect presence
Finding hope in a year like no other
Discomfort and joy
The anxieties that long ago shadowed Christmas are back
The Spectator’s Notes
Many ingenious ways of evading Covid-19 have been devised to assist commerce, fewer to assist worship. In our next-door village,…
Open season
Anything goes with Advent calendars
Christianity is our best defence
It has become normal to think of the Islamist attacks in Europe as attacks on a secular way of life.…
Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics
The United States has always been the world’s leading religious marketplace. Even before independence, the American colonies were more fervently…
What does Kamala Harris really believe?
When Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate, the Religion News Service reported that she ‘now considers herself…
Beyond belief
It’s a mistake to turn Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
The conservative legal movement is dead
Imagine if Sonia Sotomayor, once she got on the Supreme Court, started ruling like Clarence Thomas. I know, I know,…
Is Black Lives Matter a religion for woke white people?
The most memorable footage of the Black Lives Matter protests, and perhaps the creepiest, doesn’t capture any acts of violence,…
Doo-wop deity
He toured with Little Richard, sang with Van Morrison, inspired the Beatles and Paul Simon. Graeme Thomson talks to Dion, one of the last living links to the early days of street-corner rock ’n’ roll
Mourning glory
Alexandra Coghlan on the enduring appeal of requiems
A world apart
Holed up in her sixth-floor London flat, Laura Freeman finds solace in the art of the hermit
Be not so fearful
Here is a sobering thought for anyone involved in the world of finance. Those who charge interest when they lend…
40 years on, Life of Brian has made the world a darker place
I went to the Battle of Ideas at the Barbican last weekend, a free speech festival organised by the Brexit…
Patently insincere: Kanye’s Jesus is King reviewed
Grade: B– Kanye West has found Jesus Christ. Lucky old Christ. If I were Christ I’d have hidden out a…
The Democratic party’s post-Christian America
The new Pew report doesn’t mince words in its headline: ‘In US, Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace.’ In…
Why Sodom and south Devon are a million miles apart
We gathered around in the sunshine and watched the coffin being lowered into the freshly dug trench. Stratifications visible on…
Did Christianity make the western mind — or was it the other way round?
Nobody can accuse Tom Holland of shying away from big subjects. Dominion is nothing less than a history of Christianity…
The West cannot survive without a re-energised belief in Christianity
There is no faster way to get yourself classed as dim than by admitting that you hold religious belief, especially…
