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What beer drinking can teach Richard Dawkins and Tom Holland about ‘Cultural Christianity’

April 17, 2024

The news that Richard Dawkins has declared for “cultural Christianity” has excited many Christians. One wonders why. Like other cultural Christians such as historian Tom Holland and activist and erstwhile New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the professor is warm in his praise of Christian values. He says that Christianity is the best religion, though he

Did we just see the budding shoots of a Christian revival this Easter?

April 03, 2024

The Easter edition of the Spectator took a refreshingly upbeat stance on the State of Christendom, with Justin Brierley setting out his argument that we are seeing a Christian revival in England. Drawing on the much-reported religious experience of historian Tom Holland, he said that he could “see signs that he [God] is moving in

Enlightenment pragmaticism versus sacred revolt

February 20, 2024

To rave in the nave or not to rave in the nave? The disturbances about what should or should not happen in a cathedral have divided Christian opinion in the UK. This is perhaps partly because the differences between the Protestant and the Catholic minds run deep. It’s not driven only by differences in the

Bishop Barron: ‘Modernity is a Christian heresy’

February 16, 2023

If available information about Mass attendance since the COVID-19 outbreak is true, then there was certainly significant cause for Word on Fire and Catholic Voices’ conference on identifying the ways of sharing the Church’s story in the modern world. The key speaker at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre opposite Westminster Abbey was American Bishop Robert

On pilgrimage with Tom Holland

January 27, 2022

Where would you go? I’ve done the Camino to Santiago and I’ve always wanted to go to Rome (the Via Francigena). I’d been vaguely thinking next year would be good because it’s the 900th anniversary of the Priory of the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew, which is said to have been founded by Rahere, reputedly the

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/09/16

September 16, 2016

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July 21, 2016

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England’s lovable Christian warrior king

July 21, 2016

Review: Athelstan by Tom Holland