As a Muslim, I’m fed up with the hypocrisy of the free speech fundamentalists
The response to the inexcusable murder of Charlie Hebdo’s staff has proved that many liberals are guilty of double standards…
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Is the Charlie Hebdo attack really a struggle over European values?
By targeting the French magazine, the attackers were able to deepen already profound rifts in French society and establish an…
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Reverend Richard Coles: Despite the relentless consumerism, Christmas still has the power to give us hope
In spite of retail frenzy, the gratuitous use of glitter and our attempts to reconcile irreconcilable family, we perceive in…
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If Mary and Joseph tried to reach Bethlehem today, they would get stuck at an Israeli checkpoint
Why is it that the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East, or countries such as Sudan, has attracted…
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Meet Libby Lane, the Church of England’s first woman bishop
After decades of wrangling, the Church of England has finally appointed its first woman bishop. Caroline Crampton went to meet…
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The feminist case for the veil
In Refusing the Veil, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has written a socially conservative book that is dressed up as a liberal feminist…
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The Pope of the poor and the Seven Deadly Sins of banking practice
Whether you choose the religious terminology of sin or the secular language of social harm, it is clear that banks…
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The books of revelations: why are novelists turning back to religion?
There is a sense that, in recent years, novelists have formed part of a rearguard action in response to Richard…
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