Why did the bishops veto the clergy’s and laity’s affirmation of marriage as a union between a biological male and a biological female, with 40 per cent of General Synod regarding same-sex unions as a moral good? The reason is that many High and Broad Church bishops confuse what might be described as churchmanship with faith

Read More

As political institutions become increasingly progressive, the law becomes an instrument for imposing whatever political action is desired. This creates a risk-averse population with little sense of what human being and human nature are, or what human freedom and human necessity involve

Read More

Progressive Christians seek to construct a liberationist Jesus to solve whatever they think ails the body politic. They are enthusiastic about the Jewish Jesus only if his Jewishness suits their agenda. Admittedly, when Christians began exploring the Jewish Jesus, they did so clumsily. Yet admitting the clumsiness does not detract from the Jewishness as a historical fact

Read More

The Anglosphere is standing at the crossroads. The insistence that sex and gender are functionally independent from each other, and from evolutionary biology, has either failed or been pushed as far as it can without detonating

Read More

We live in an age where facts are 'scientific' if they serve the current hegemonic narrative and unscientific if they do not. Many scientists, to their shame and the detriment of their disciplines, reinforce this delusion because it bankrolls research and drives public policies of which they personally approve. One manifestation: the movement against recording sex on birth certificates

Read More

Each day, before saying Morning Prayer, I log on to see what my favourite evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are up to at the Dark Horse Podcast. If this seems odd—we are supposed to be enemies, and I should be praying not surfing the web—I see us as strange bedfellows. I am attracted […]

Read More

In 2005, after a public interview, a man in the audience asked Marilynne Robinson a loaded question: “What do you think of Flannery O’Connor?” She demurred before admitting to disliking the way O’Connor “creates terribly defective characters and then destroys them”. She realises O’Connor intends to express the presence of Grace, in some way, but […]

Read More

Homosexual identity has become one of many battering rams for intersectional politics. Homosexuals are not Magical Elves. Being homosexual is messy. It involves sexual acts that were until recently recognised as hazardous to health. There is no basis, in Scripture or Natural Law, by which the Church can bless practising homosexuals

Read More

Progressives believe scriptural prohibitions are culturally contextual: binding on the ancients because they knew no better; not binding on us because we do. For example, it is perfectly reasonable to expect Christians to condemn homophobia in all its forms, since Christ requires it. It does not follow, as some would have us believe, that Christ sanctified homosexual behaviour

Read More

Benedict XVI summarised the Church’s essential life thus: it worships God, it evangelises, it serves the poor. In the beginning, it did this counter-culturally, in a pagan world, before it became the bedrock of Western civilisation. Now the West no longer believes in Christianity, and has become pagan again. So the Church is once more […]

Read More