Giles Fraser: Is it time to snub the Pope now?

“I have a feeling the Pope pinched Jesus from me and moved him into the Vatican.”

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Christians must take direct action

There are three truths I take as given.

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Paul Vallely: It is not perfect, but it helps millions

I suppose a backlash against Fairtrade was inevitable.

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Simon Parke: Living in Angry Land

I AM TERRIFIED by the emotions flying around my kitchen.

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Don’t make windows into hearts

Much of the comment on Tony Blair’s change of denominational allegiance back in December was intrusive and impertinent.

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Passing on our Christian principles

Jack Straw has intimated that the United Kingdom is moving towards a written constitution.

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100 years ago: McKenna’s Education Bill

“IF ONLY these two measures (the Education and the Licensing Bills) are passed, I shall regard 1908 as one of the years of the hand of the Most High.”...

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Leader: The countryside at tipping-point

IN HIS 2007 report, released on Monday, the Rural Advocate imagines that all those living below the poverty line in the countryside were lumped together...

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Douglas Adams was right about meaning

‘It is why communion is the central Christian act: sharing, being with’

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