School prayer bans don’t make Britain a secular state

Jan 29, 2024 by

by Rakib Ehsan, CapX: The ban on ‘prayer rituals’ at the high-performing Michaela Community School led by the so-called ‘strictest headmistress in Britain’ – Katharine Birbalsingh – is currently being decided on in the courts, with the...

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A Christian response to our secular world

Oct 16, 2023 by

by Martin Davie, Christian Today: It is often noted that Western society has become increasingly ‘secular’ since the eighteenth century, and the reality of what this means has been brought home to me afresh by two events that...

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A crisis of parenting is the root cause of America’s rapid secularization

Sep 6, 2023 by

by Michael Cook, Mercator: Not long ago, I asked a young tradesman to quote on a job. We’ll call him Bruno. We began talking and I mentioned that I was a Catholic. “Religion,” he said, “that’s a good thing.” I asked what his was and he...

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In Our Chaotic Age, Some Atheists Are Rethinking Secularism

Jul 28, 2023 by

by Carl R Trueman, First Things: It is eighty years since C. S. Lewis delivered the lectures that were eventually to be published as his remarkable book The Abolition of Man. I place it in the same category as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons,...

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Trolling Christianity

Jan 5, 2023 by

by Michael Cook, MercatorNet: Today is the twelfth day of Christmas, so it’s my last chance before taking down the decorations to reflect upon what The Guardian drummed up for the holiday season. One of its most distinguished columnists,...

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Government admits it was ‘inappropriate’ for CPS to call Bible ‘offensive’

Dec 14, 2022 by

from Christian Concern: In a win for Christian freedoms, the government has said that it was “inappropriate” for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to argue that parts of the Bible are “no longer appropriate in modern society” while...

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