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What beer drinking can teach Richard Dawkins and Tom Holland about ‘Cultural Christianity’
April 17, 2024
The news that Richard Dawkins has declared for “cultural Christianity” has excited many Christians. One wonders why. Like other cultural Christians such as historian Tom Holland and activist and erstwhile New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the professor is warm in his praise of Christian values. He says that Christianity is the best religion, though he
Did we just see the budding shoots of a Christian revival this Easter?
April 03, 2024
The Easter edition of the Spectator took a refreshingly upbeat stance on the State of Christendom, with Justin Brierley setting out his argument that we are seeing a Christian revival in England. Drawing on the much-reported religious experience of historian Tom Holland, he said that he could “see signs that he [God] is moving in
The unexpected return of Christian ethics
August 10, 2023
The Church has been fighting a losing battle in the West over culture, belief and ethics. But rather surprisingly, there are reasons for thinking this may be the moment for a fight-back; a re-energising of the Church’s conviction that Truth matters and the cost of rejecting the Christian vision of truth and ethics has been fatal to
When humanists fall out with each other
September 23, 2022
The great Christian humanists of the Renaissance, men like Erasmus of Rotterdam and St Thomas More, were committed to the Church even while producing superb scholarship
When Dawkins Teaches Catechism
April 14, 2021
For years, people have complained about the dumbing down of doctrine in religious education courses, but this takes the cake: Catholics literally enraged because an atheist describes Catholic teaching fairly accurately.
Rowan Williams and Richard Dawkins oppose expansion of Catholic schools
March 06, 2018
They said changing admissions rules for new faith schools would be 'divisive'
Like him or not, Richard Dawkins has a right to offend
July 25, 2017
The professor has been given a free pass on Christianity, yet is 'no-platformed' over Islam
An intellectually robust case for Christianity
May 12, 2016
Rupert Shortt deploys both St Thomas Aquinas and Bertrand Russell in his defence of Christianity as a way of making sense of the world
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