Known for their ethics of non-violence and the forgiveness of enemies, how easy it is for people who hate Christians to persecute them. Now if Jesus had advocated violence and conquest as a way of spreading the faith and had given his blessing to armed resistance and terrorism, potential persecutors would leave Christians well alone. […]
Archbishop Justin Welby has just announced that he is resigning for failing to bring the abusive Church of England lay reader John Smyth to justice. And it is about time too, for the stench of hypocrisy that emanates from Welby (and the self-righteous Smyth too) is worse than old sewage. Welby, who has thundered against
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When I was an acne-encrusted and angst-driven teenager in the eighties, one of the risqué things to do was to watch the comedy The Young Ones. For those too young to know of this series, it concerned the lives of four university students renting a house together. Each was a student stereotype: Vyvyan the anarchic
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The most persecuted religion in the world is neither Islam nor Judaism, but Christianity. By persecution, I mean how Open Doors, a charity that advocates Christian freedom of worship, defines it, which is ‘any hostility experienced as a result of one’s identification with Christ. This can include hostile attitudes, words and actions towards Christians’. So,
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Well, well, well, after a depressing and burgeoning list of gaffes and scandals, the Labour government, for all its rhetoric regarding following a moral foreign policy, has added a large helping of neo-imperialism to the festering mix. Who would have guessed? As well as an encouragement of Argentina’s hopes of gaining sovereignty of the Falkland
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If they are not already doing so, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, the de facto custodians of the English language, ought to be considering a new noun – ‘a lammy.’ Inspired by the Falstaff of the front benches, David Lammy, it means a public figure, such as a politician, who wishes to appear
“An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walk into a pub…” or so the joke goes. If you’re old enough to remember this staple gag of English standup, you’ll know that it got its laughs from the Irishman doing or saying something hilariously silly. Such condescension towards Irish people as charming fools is certainly no
It appears to be the case that one of the last places where red-bloodied English patriotism can be displayed without the ‘progressive’ left pouring shame on it is at sporting events. It is on football terraces where we see the purest form of national pride. England’s fans belt out the national anthem, proudly wave their
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English universities have not always been the epitome of free speech that they are supposed to be. It was only in 1871 that Roman Catholics, Protestant nonconformists and atheists were able to attend and hold teaching posts at university with the passing of the Universities Test Act. However, that is nearly 160 years ago, and
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As a child, I was a proverbial book worm. In fact, I might have merited the title of book python because I ‘ingested’ so many books. One of my favourite childhood recollections is of spending Saturday mornings at my local library and coming home with a carrier bag ponderous with books on topics such as
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