I read Russell Brand’s unreadable new book, for my sins
The controversial star’s conversion is more cult-like than Christlike
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The curse of individualism
Rowan Williams’s new book reimagines solidarity for our times
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A new Christianity is spreading across Britain
In my congregation in Lewisham, I can see a hunger to be more serious
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O Father, where art thou?
Literature still looks to the clergy for answers
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In Olney, women limber up for the race of their lives
The Olney Pancake Race has been run on Shrove Tuesday since 1445
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What Nigerians think of Trump’s Christian persecution claims
The sectarian battle lines were drawn long before the US intervention
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God loves Lily Phillips
The porn star’s conversion to Christianity seems unlikely, but God loves an outcast
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Keir Starmer’s crisis of faith
Despite its leader’s atheism, the Labour party cannot ignore the religious currents reshaping Britain
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Tommy Robinson’s Christmas carols culture war
The Unite the Kingdom Christmas service showed a new kind of British Christianity
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How the far right co-opted the cross
US-style Christian nationalism is slowly infiltrating Britain. But faith is about much more than restricting citizenship
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This was the first Godless year of my life
But I am not quite done with Him yet
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On the pilgrim’s trail for Gen Z’s first saint
The young people filling churches can follow Carlo Acutis from Chelsea to Italy
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An audience with Austria’s “rebel nuns”
The elderly sisters who defied Church authority are paragons of speaking truth to power
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Did you hear there’s a Rapture tonight?
TikTok Christians believe they might be about to ascend to heaven
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Christianity’s political ascent
Alice Roberts’ history of the late Roman empire dispels the notion of a faith for the poor and oppressed –…
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God on the move
Welcome to the running club powered by electrolytes – and the Holy Spirit.
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Faith is a half-formed thing
A new generation is turning away from established churches in search of a different way to believe.
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Pope Francis’s illusions
The controversial liberaliser brought humanity to the Vatican – but he was unable to arrest the Catholic Church’s decline.
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I am a long-lapsed Christian, but the rituals of Easter still draw me in
The cravings to fill the house with tulips and white narcissus are irresistible.
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The realism of religion
A Christian revival won’t save the deluded West – but it might teach it to accept its fate.
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