Profile: The Church of England, afflicted by a central bureaucracy which is mounting a takeover bid

Liberal Anglicans are appalled by the plan launched by the Archbishops to attain salvation through House Churches.

Lucy Winkett: Churches have played a vital role throughout Covid. But their buildings are increasingly under threat.

Often hundreds of years old, they contend with crumbling roofs, deteriorating halls, and other inadequate facilities. These spaces desperately need funding.

Chris Whitehouse: Faith leaders have a moral duty to be better prepared for the next pandemic

Never again must the doors of our nation’s churches close for fifteen weeks straight. Religion is more than ritual – it is life itself.

Matt Kilcoyne: An unholy alliance is frustrating our freedom to shop on Sunday. Johnson should take it on.

The existing rules are inconsistent and hypocritical. They do not reflect a 24/7 economy, where people can purchase online and receive deliveries any time.

Cummings 2) The Church of England. People want guidance on God, not sermons about advisers.

Its bishops’ latest attack on Cummings will do nothing to enamour the electorate.

Scruton and the Tories. “A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country.”

Why is the Party so mistrustful of Tory intellectuals? We mourn the passing of our former contributor.

A sign of the times. The remarkable quiet that follows Labour’s commitment to decriminalise abortion up until birth

It is not only pro-lifers who might jib at the United Kingdom acquiring one of the most permissive abortion laws in the world. 

The poor bloody infantry: why people join political parties

A new study asks good questions without providing good answers.

Aitken on the meaning of Easter: “We can all have second chances, little resurrections in our lives.”

The former Cabinet minister, who went to prison for perjury, explains why, as a prison chaplain, he is happier than he has ever been.

Interview. “Look, this is a Christian country”, says Hinds. But he adds that the cap on new faith schools’ admissions should stay.

At times, says the Education Secretary, the post he holds requires “a bold and vociferous and constant presence”. But “at other times less so”.

Why Britain wants to leave this European Union of failed nation states

In his new book, Jeremy Black traces the history of Britain’s relations with the Continent, and how it bears on the Brexit debate.

The power of song

The human condition is a sometimes conflicting mixture of reason and emotion.

Iain Mansfield: We must recapture the commanding heights of society from the Left

It has secured an overwhelming dominance. Until or unless this changes, the Right may win elections – but to limited effect.

Welby’s next stop should be a small business conference

His TUC account of the harm that some businesses can do should be balanced by one of the good that more do – and by projecting a personal theology of wealth creation.

Scott Mann: No, Archbishop, new taxes aren’t the answer to our economic challenges

My constituents would accept an appropriate level of tax but they resent being lectured by those for whom taxation can never be high enough.