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Secret plan to avoid church gay split | Print |  Email
Sunday, 24 February 2008
Dr Rowan Williams has held confidential talks with senior American bishops and theologians who oppose the pro-gay policies of their liberal leaders. A handful of hardline American dioceses are already defecting from the Episcopal Church, the American branch of Anglicanism, and transferring their loyalties to a conservative archbishop in South America, says The Telegraph
 
MPs investigate Catholic influence on schools | Print |  Email
Sunday, 24 February 2008
A Commons select committee is to investigate evidence that the Roman Catholic Church is pursuing a more fundamentalist approach towards religion in its schools, reports Richard Garner, Education Editor of The Independent
 
‘Most Britons belong to no religion’ | Print |  Email
Friday, 22 February 2008
Freedom from religion in Britain is becoming as important as freedom of religion, according to a United Nations investigation. A 23-page report by Asma Jahangir, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, says that the 2001 census findings can no longer be regarded as accurate. The report claims that two thirds of British people do not admit to any religious affiliation and calls for the disestablishment of the Church of England, writes
Ruth Gledhill in The Times
 
Sorry is not enough | Print |  Email
Friday, 22 February 2008
It was always highly improbable that a British government so willing to follow the Bush administration into the folly of Iraq would escape being ensnared in the shameful practice of “rendition” – a US programme to kidnap and transport beyond the reach of the law suspects in the “war on terror”. And so it has proved, says an editorial in The Financial Times
 
Government apologises over rendition flights | Print |  Email
Friday, 22 February 2008
The Government today admitted that US "special rendition" flights had twice landed on British soil in contravention of earlier Government assurances. David Miliband said in a Commons statement that on two occasions in 2002 US flights carrying terrorist suspects stopped to refuel at the airbase on the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia. Read more in The Herald
 
Religion should have a smaller official role in Britain, not a greater one | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Disestablishing the Church of England does not mean that it has no public role to play. America's founders said there should be no established religion, but religion shapes public debate to a degree that many in Europe find incomprehensible. Let religion compete in the marketplace for ideas, not seek shelter behind special privileges. One law for all, with its enlightened insistence on tolerance and free speech, is not a “bit of a danger”. It is what underwrites the ability of all religions to go about their business unhindered, says The Economist
 
In Defense of Secularism's Religious Allies | Print |  Email
Monday, 18 February 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent intimation that we ought to find a special place in British Government for Islamic Sharia law is a step in exactly the wrong direction. The good Dr. Williams would have done much better for his Church, his people, and for British Muslims by demanding a completely secular government. Truly secular society, ironically, provides the safest and most nurturing environment for religion of all, writes Greg Epstein in The Washington Post
 
In Defense of Secularism | Print |  Email
Monday, 18 February 2008
'It's red meat for pundits,' concedes Harvard chaplain Greg Epstein, who prefers the word 'humanist,' writes Lisa Miller in her 'Belief Watch' column in Newsweek
 
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