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there cannot be many issues which preoccupy christian parents more than how to keep their children engaged with the faith. this is hardly a ...

Niall Gooch

birds and us: a 12,000 year history, from cave art to conservation by tim birkhead viking 2022, £25, 441 pages our relationship with birds h...

John McEwen

in december, an ex-police officer called harry miller won a legal challenge against a national policy permitting forces to record gender-cri...

Sir Stephen Stewart

it is little surprise that many agnostic novelists are drawn to religion as a theme: it is dramatic, colourful, and it heightens moral dilem...

Theo Hobson

like all abstractions, empire is best understood when considered in terms of individuals, their motivation and experience. the current cult ...

Jeremy Black

there is a folk history of the reformation in england which goes roughly as follows: in the years immediately before the break with rome, th...

Niall Gooch

it’s a brave thing, to compose a christmas oratorio when you’re not bach: the comparisons between his genius and yours are likely to be awkw...

Michael White

one only has to think of the controversy about doctor who, and the casting of jodie whittaker as the 13th doctor back in 2018, to be reminde...

Serenhedd James

whatever happened to tradition?: history, belonging and the future of the west by tim stanley bloomsbury, £20, 266 pages ________ in recent ...

Theo Hobson

as the wait begins for a decision in the  dobbs v. jackson women’s health organization  abortion case, close attention will be pai...

Jonah McKeown