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A cottage industry of women are selling courses aligned with a conservative movement that claims feminism is the source of women’s discontentA thirtysomething woman with the easy smile of your favo...
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EU leaders have normalised once fringe racist narratives in their migration, border control and even foreign policiesFor years, Viktor Orbán, with his anti-migrant and white Christian nationalist r...
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With his stand against Trump, the pope has shown the far right doesn’t have a monopoly on Christianity. If people of good faith push hard, the future could be redefinedIn the same way that America’...
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The US president is making a desperate plea to the one group that seemingly hasn’t deserted him – yetHe has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected ...
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The pontiff’s criticisms of Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran indicate a welcome resolve to follow in his predecessor’s footsepsOne year after the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican this week host...
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The US president’s grudge match with the pope underlines how religion really functions in American politicsI’m not a particularly religious person, even though everyone tells me how cool believing ...
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When it comes to theology, Donald Trump’s vice-president clearly knows best. Are we about to see an American break with Rome?The battle to be the absolute worst Trump henchman can feel so closely f...
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The president’s attack on the head of the Catholic church and the AI depiction of himself as a Christ-like figure have not gone down well with one of the largest groups of swing voters in the USPoo...
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Based on a true story, Ewan Horrocks as a young German denouncing Nazism and Rupert Evans as a Gestapo officer work well to loosen the Christian saviour narrative gripThis second world war-set feat...
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The German cleric who sparked the Reformation - and profoundly changed Europe – saw music as a divine gift. He almost certainly didn’t say ‘Why should the devil have all the best tunes?’, but he s...
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A professed desire to protect the country’s Christian identity is cover for a divisive politics which ignores the central message of the gospelsIn an interview conducted a few days after the beginn...
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Andrew Copson of Humanists UK says we must recognise non-religious people as a community with a positive, ethical worldview that deserves equal standing in the public squareThe retraction of the Bi...
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The potency of the crucifixion story lies in how, as we experience the sometimes devastating travails of human existence, God himself suffers with usMaking sense of it is a column about spiritualit...
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The brutalisation of global norms by figures like Pete Hegseth must be seen as an ethical issue. It’s a fight against chaos, and all major religions must play a roleThat combative old hymn, Onward...
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In today’s newsletter: The first woman to hold the position of archbishop of Canterbury arrives at a time of transition with hopes that she can restore the church’s reputationGood morning. At a cer...
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At a time when Britain has never felt more divided, we should draw on Christian values to reject hate and focus on what unites usWhen you think about the unedifying political furore about the open ...
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Imagine you’re sitting across the table from a church friend. You’ve known him since he began attending the church a few years ago, and for the last several months, he’s been a part of the small gr...
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Several years ago, a young man experiencing same-sex attraction asked me for counsel. He’d heard a sermon at his church that, while not affirming homosexual sex, described those identifying as LGBT...
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Courtney and Melissa talk with New Testament scholar (and Melissa’s husband) Mike Kruger about the excellent evidence that Jesus physically rose from the dead and the difference that makes for our ...
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It’s crazy how fast this has become normal: Ask a question to any artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, and you get an instant, in-depth answer, even to a spiritual question. AI is already showing...
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On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. I asked Kelly M. Kapic—professor of theological studies at Covenant College and a...