IN 2007, the four men who came to be recognised as the leaders of New Atheism – Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens – met at Hitchens’s apartment in Washington DC to affirm their alliance and explore together the nature of their respective anti-theisms. Hitchens, ever the contrarian, voiced two heretical views […]
THE Prayer Book Epistle reading for today, the second Sunday after Easter, is a strong encouragement to Christians suffering for their faith. The passage is from the Apostle Peter’s first New Testament letter, written from Rome during the reign of the Emperor Nero (AD 54-68). It was probably written shortly before the state-sponsored persecution of Christians […]
OF the many lives recorded in Biblical stories, that of John the Baptist stands out. He was six months older than his cousin Jesus of Nazareth, but other than the events around his birth, recorded in Luke’s Gospel, we are told nothing of his early life. His father, Zechariah, was a priest of the division of […]
The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.But now I only hearIts melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night-wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be trueTo one another! for the world, […]
THE Prayer Book reading for today, Good Friday, from John’s Gospel reveals the profound irony in Pontius Pilate’s refusal to change the inscription on Jesus’s cross from a declaration of objective truth to a subjective claim. All four New Testament Gospels record the inscription on the cross but John’s is the only one to relate […]
THE Prayer Book Epistle reading for today, the Sunday before Easter, is one of the most evocative descriptions of the saving work of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. This ‘Hymn to Christ’, probably a creed or canticle already in use in the early Church, comes in the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Christians in […]
THIS month an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill will propose decriminalising abortion entirely. Promoted by Labour’s Dame Diana Johnson, this proposal would abolish sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929, and states that ‘no offence is committed by a woman acting in […]
THIS month an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill will propose decriminalising abortion entirely. Promoted by Labour’s Dame Diana Johnson, this proposal would abolish sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929, and states that ‘no offence is committed by a woman acting in […]
IT seems that the leader of the Church of England is blissfully unaware of the reason for falling church attendance across this country. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, recently declared in an interview with the New Statesman that he would ‘rather be woke than asleep’. Is this a coincidence? Welby appears to be creating more division and […]
LORD (Peter) Lilley did a significant service to demoralised Church of England parishioners with his witty intervention in the House of Lords last week. During the Report Stage of the Safety of Rwanda Bill, the former Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher told Archbishop of Canterbury […]
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