In a culture increasingly organised around certainties, the Church of England can still offer something rarer than confidence: seriousness without fanaticism. It can make room for faith and doubt in the same pew. It can say, in effect: come and pray with us while you are still working out what you think

Fr Ben Vertannes, Vicar of St John’s, Walworth, Sunday Times, 29 March

The reality of religious involvement in primary education is better outcomes, more fulfilled teachers and happier kids, not the bogeyman of “indoctrination” that the secularists claim

Fergus Butler-Gallie, priest and writer, Telegraph, 26 March

It is good that religion is presented to children as part of the reality of human society because it always was, currently is and always will be

Ibid.

We’ve been telling them (the Bible Society) for the better part of a year that there were serious problems with the data — and even what those problems were likely to be — and they refused to engage with us. I don’t know whether to feel gratified by the vindication or annoyed by the amount of time I wasted in pointing out that the numbers were clearly wrong

Professor David Voas, emeritus professor of social science at University College London, on the Quiet Revival report, BBC, 26 March

Could you hear our “amen” in there? We just had a little loud prayer as a team. In this Holy Week. President Trump and the First Lady are joining in prayer with Christians celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, 30 March

Jesus is the King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them

Pope Leo, celebrating Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square, 29 March

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