Gove Welcomes Atheist Schools

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The Government is ready to back the creation of atheist schools as part of its series of reforms, the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, said yesterday.

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Oxford University Lecturer 'Discriminated Against' After Converting To Christianity

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

A lecturer at Oxford University’s centre for Jewish studies claims colleagues discrim...

St Paul’s Thinking About Cleaning City

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

A word from the pulpit. The ecclesiastical economists at St Paul’s Cathedral have decided it’s time to get more involved with what is going on in the rest of the City. This isn’t quite Jes...

Archbishop 'Stopped And Searched Eight Times'

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev John Sentamu, disclosed yesterday that he has been stopped and searched by police eight times.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Blesses Our Dispossessed Campaign

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Desmond Tutu, one of the world's greatest champions of the Dispossessed, today gave a powerful blessing to the Standard's campaign to help the poorest in

Bashing For Hospitals Over Ban On The Bible

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Hospital bosses who want to ban Bibles from patients’ bedside lockers have been attacked by religious leaders.

They warned th...

Our First Duty Is To The Weak

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Jane Nicklinson, is the wife of the 56-year-old Tony Nicklinson, who is "locked-in" to a terribly paralysed body as a consequence of a stroke. He wants her to help him to die; and she had this to say on BBC...

Forty Years Of Less Society

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Middle age is a good time for retrospection. Passing half-time in our lives offers us the opportunity to reflect and catch a glimpse of the wood through the trees.

Couples are returning to church for their weddings after more than a decade of decline in traditional services.

The Archbishop of Canterbury praised David Cameron's Big Society idea for moving away from Margaret Thatcher's "toxic" claim that there is no such thing as society.

They pick up thousands of broken bottles in city centres every year, preventing them from becoming weapons. They distribute flip flops – 35,000...

Hate Laws May Be ‘Threatening Free Speech’

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Is it time to re-think “hate” legislation? A report published this week argues that the volume of hate laws is threatening free speech and has led to a series of bizarre and inconsistent court c...

Benedict's Crusade

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The Vatican's recently-founded Pontifical Council for New Evangelization seems at first glance to be a somewhat redundant enterprise. Isn't the Catholic Church already pretty good at spreading the faith? No...

Death By Appointment Degrades The Disabled

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Tony Nicklinson wants his wife to be able to kill him without fear of prosecution. He suffers from “locked-in syndrome”, is unable to wash or feed himself, and wants the Director of Public Prose...

World Cup Effect Prompts Primary School To Ban Playground Football

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Football has been halted in a primary school playground amid concerns that children could be copying the poor behaviour of professional players that they witnessed during the World Cup.

Gove's Bill Spells Segregation And Tax-Funded Madrases

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The academies bill yesterday hurtled on a break...

White Britons Unfairly Targeted For Hate Crimes

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

White Christians are unfairly targeted by police and prosecutors over alleged hate crimes compared with minority groups and other religion...

The God-Shaped Hole In Our Lives

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The same thing happens in both the first and second episodes of BBC2's new comedy series Rev . St Saviour's, a run-down inner-city church with usually a tiny congregation, is suddenly filled ...

The NS Profile: Rowan Williams

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The last time the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, spoke to the New Statesman, it was at the end of 2008, a year that our writer, James Macintyre, described as "one of the most dif...

Church Of England Online Wedding Planner Used By One Third Of Couples

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The Church of England has embraced cyberspace with an online wedding planner that is now us...

Faith Communities In The ‘Big Society’

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Together with the Chief Rabbi and Archbishop of Westminster and leaders of other faiths, the Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday hosted a discussion with the Secretary of State, Eric Pickles, and the Ministe...

Man In The News: Rowan Williams

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

By most accounts, A 13th century order of nuns who never leave their convent or read newspapers is now able to pray for victims of tragedies across world after being given purpose-made handheld device that flashes up news head...

Couples Allowed To Marry In Any Church

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Couples will now be able to marry in any church of their choosing without having a strong connection to the parish after the Church of England agreed to relax the rules.

Church leaders hope that it ...

French MPs Vote To Ban Islamic Full Veil In Public

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

France's lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public.

The Science Of Lying: Why The Truth Really Can Hurt

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

How do you know if someone is lying to you? What, exactly, are you supposed to look for?

A suddenly distended nose, possibly – if your name is Geppetto and your son a wooden pupp...