Education

Religion and the Rise of Sport in England, by Hugh McLeod

religion and the rise of sport in england hugh mcleod oxford university press, £30, 304 pages a visitor from 200 years ago, landing in engla...

Dr Mark Chapman

The Word: On the Translation of the Bible, by John Barton

the word: on the translation of the bible john barton allen lane, £25, 320 pages the tricky business of translating sacred scripture from th...

How the gender ideology war is destroying the lives of young girls

julie is 14. she sees gender ideology as a kind of social contagion:  "controversial gender ideology has taken over my school. there's ...

Irish teacher sacked by school over use of pronouns for transgender pupil

it was announced on friday that irish schoolteacher, enoch burke, was sacked from his job at wilson hospital school, a private church of ire...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

A splash of Spanish sun at the Royal Academy

there’s something almost secretive about the entrance to the royal academy’s spain and the hispanic world: treasures from the hispanic socie...

The coronation will be an opportunity for Britain to revive its Christian identity

what are you doing for the coronation?  i mean  you . of course we know we all get a public holiday and there will be commemorativ...

Benedict XVI and my vocation to the priesthood

no matter how inevitable or indeed no matter how unexpected, death has a powerful way of gripping the heart and bringing the mind into sharp...

Fr Paschal Uche

Believing in a better Britten

sometimes christianity creeps into opera in unwelcome ways. a notorious example is benjamin britten’s rape of lucretia which tells the ancie...

Sins of a honey-toned broadcaster

confessions: life re-examined edward stourton penguin doubleday, £20, 304 pages edward stourton, the distinguished broadcaster from an emine...

Sir Nicholas Coleridge

'God wants the very best for you': Benedict XVI in the UK

alex dimminger (kneeling, in orange) was the youth delegate for the diocese of east anglia during benedict xvi’s visit to the united kingdom...