Is there another Islamic agenda behind the national Muslim war memorial to the brave soldiers who died for us during two...

Mar 16, 2024 by

By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald. Timing is everything. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the government will fund a national war memorial to those Muslim soldiers who fought on our side during the two world wars and in...

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The Zone of Interest in forgiveness

Mar 16, 2024 by

By Michael Cook, Mercator. The Zone of Interest won two Oscars this year. It is a highly stylized dissection of the character of Rudolph Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz. In his cozy home, with a wall separating his family from the...

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Lenten Meditations: Saturday 16 March 2024

Mar 16, 2024 by

Sat Mar 16 am:  102, 108 pm: 33 Exodus 2:23-3:15 1 Cor 13:1-13 Mark 9:14-29 FOURTH SATURDAY OF LENT – St. Aristobulus, Bishop of Britain (1st c.) LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: Anglicans especially will find it interesting that on the...

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CI News: 15 March 2024

Mar 15, 2024 by

from The Christian Institute: In the news this week: CI: ‘Broad extremism definition poses unnecessary threat to free speech’, Starmer wants to legalise assisted suicide if he becomes Prime Minister and ‘Report hurtful words’ says Scots...

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Hope Not Hate sees ‘extremism’ everywhere

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Rakib Ehsan, spiked: Its new report tries to brand Tory MPs and gender-critical feminists as threats to democracy. This week, Michael Gove, the UK government’s communities secretary, published a new definition of ‘extremism’. He...

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No churchwardens and vacant PCC posts: an investigation into the church volunteering crisis

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Madeleine Davies, Church Times: Elections no longer contested, empty pews — Madeleine Davies investigates IT WAS John Betjeman who (in “Septuagesima”, Poems in the Porch, SPCK, 1954) wrote: Let’s praise the man who goes to light The...

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The West Has Forgotten Why Collateral Damage Is Morally Justified

Mar 15, 2024 by

By Shlomo M Brody, Public Discourse. Ultimately, the defeat of these terrorist groups is the primary ethical imperative. This will benefit not only Israel but also the Gazan civilians who suffer longer under their terrorist leaders and...

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Why Is Haiti Uniquely Miserable?

Mar 15, 2024 by

By Rod Dreher, European Conservative. Back in 2018, President Donald Trump referred to Haiti as a “s**thole,” and was roundly denounced for being a racist. While watching a clip of a “cannibal gang” member eating a piece of roasted human...

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When will Nigerian Christians start to be counted?

Mar 15, 2024 by

CEN Editorial: How many more kidnappings and killings before Nigerian Christians start to count? In April (14) it will be the tenth anniversary of the kidnapping of 276 Nigerian teenage girls by the Islamist group Boko Haram, from a...

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The Collapse of Cultural Christianity—And the Rise of Cultural Queerness

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Jonathon Van Maren, The European Conservative: Around 25% of Gen Z in America now identify as LGBT, compared to 3% of the general population. How do nations become post-Christian? To quote Ernest Hemingway: Gradually, and then...

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