Leader: PM can be fair dinkum about his beliefs

IT IS depressing to reflect on Tony Blair’s comments about religion in a television interview.

100 Years Ago

EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST”, we learn from the Western Morning News, attached to a wedding which took place last week at St Michael’s, Devonport, “owing to...

The earth is doomed by bad theology

‘Genesis assumes that the natural world was brought into being for us’

Paul Vallely: The radical religion of Mrs Gaskell

IT IS EASY to see why the world of literature has been so dismissive of Elizabeth Gaskell.

Giles Fraser: How the US conscience has become diseased

It was called “tortura del agua” by the Spanish Inquisition.

Climate action is a matter of justice

‘Climate-change injustice will be judged by God’

Simon Parke: Being elvish at Christmas

WE MUST approach the season of Advent with utmost solemnity. This is why a friend of mine has decided to be an elf.

Love — and trust — thy neighbour

‘What is paramount is the good of the other’

On the threshold of a nightmare

‘Only pressure from the international community can unlock the situation’



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