Dip into the poetry blog Humble Piety, and you find some intriguing clues to the author’s life. Fragile Things Break is the title of one recent entry, while another dated July 15, called Slow News Day ...

One of the strangest things about me is that when what appears to be “breaking news” in my field of Islamic studies emerges, I usually have very little to say. Why? Because it’s not news — at least ...

A BBC presenter wants ‘allies’ in schools to escort trans people to their preferred toilets. What could possibly go wrong? If there’s one thing predators are good at, it’s spotting soft targets.

Life isn’t easy for trans activists: despite enjoying the same legal rights as every other citizen, many still frame their cause in the language of oppression. To their credit, it takes a certain ...

Officially, blasphemy was abolished by New Labour in the 2008 Criminal Justice Act. But today, with the conviction of Hamit Coskun, blasphemy laws now exist in England. This law has been created by ...

THERE are two conflicting narratives regarding food distribution in Gaza. The first is that the Israelis and IDF are withholding truckloads of supplies going into in Gaza in order to shorten the war, ...

The number of Anglican Christians is growing by more than a million people every year, according to the respected scholar David Goodhew, visiting fellow of St John’s College, Durham University. “…new ...

Islamic State-backed rebels killed 38 worshippers at a Catholic prayer vigil in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo at about 1 a.m. on Sunday (June 27) and five other people at a nearby village, ...

Intrusive age-verification checks under the UK’s Online Safety Act are the latest step towards total censorship of the web. Whenever the British describes one of its own laws as “world-leading,” it is ...

The decline in wellbeing among young people is an all-too-familiar trend. Less understood is that the situation is significantly worse in the Anglosphere — Britain, Ireland, the US, Canada, Australia ...

New revelations have raised serious concern over the ongoing blacklisting of the Rev. Dr Bernard Randall, for a sermon in which he said it was ok for children to debate and disagree with gender ...

The Bishop of Sheffield, Pete Wilcox, found that he was preaching to the choir when he managed to persuade the Labour government to let him head up an inquiry into the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ in the 1984 ...