Analysis: Is there a campaign against the Church of England?
Analysis by Andrew Brown The last week has seen hostile articles about the Church of England’s problems in The Spectator, […]
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Doomsday has dawned and the prophecy failed: what next for followers?
QAnon followers believed Trump’s presidency would result in exposure and execution of Democrats, plutocrats, paedophiles and the rest of the “Deep State”. It didn’t happen, which has left disillusionment and re-imagined beliefs.
Joe Biden’s grounded Christianity v the hatred of the Trumpist mob
Joe Biden’s Catholic faith is almost invisible to secular liberals, yet it is going to be one of the most important things about him politically as well as personally.
Rage, denial and remorse: When prophecy fails
Charismatic pastors who prophesied that Trump would win the election have been abused, threatened and received death threats after apologising for their error.
The Covid cash crisis for religion: social action may be cut and Victorian churches shut
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way that religion is financed in England, and this will change the religious — and physical — landscape of the country.
Review of the year: Covid chaos, shrinking churches, conspiracy theories and sex abuse
Review of the year in the world of religion 2020: Covid chaos, places of worship go online but face a precarious future, faith groups polarised in US election, a spike in conspiracy theories, the crime of sex abuse and the loss of an incredible man
The Covid vaccine: why are so many conspiracies religion-based?
Exploring how religious belief can motivate suspicion of the Covid-19 vaccine in many different ways.
The RE relic needs non-religion to survive
The conventional treatment of RE as the study of competing theologies will force the subject to shrivel and die, unless it reconnects with pupils who have no religion.
Analysis: France’s laïcité is preventing freedom of belief and encouraging the jihadist
Andrew Brown asks how France can address the recent savage Jihadi violence, and hears experts suggest that the secular state makes a free discussion of the problems of religious extremism impossible for policy makers.
Explainer: People of Praise, the ‘handmaidens cult’ followed by Supreme Court candidate
Amy Coney Barrett, contender for a place on the US Supreme Court, belongs to a small Roman Catholic charismatic community ‘People of Praise, where women leaders are known as “handmaidens”.