Tag: culture wars

  • On Saturday night, I was on a Northern Line train heading back to north London. At Charing Cross, a group of Asian youths got on the carriage, five girls and three boys. The girls were all wearing headscarves and trousers, but had full makeup on. The boys were manhandling the girls in a way reminiscent…

  • With the Atheist Bus Campaign now at £38,000 and climbing, Peter Black asks: Wouldn’t all this money committed on both sides of the argument have been better spent on actually helping people have a good Christmas, the homeless for example? Allow me to quote Matthew 26:6-13 (lolcats version): 6 So Jebuz was outside in Bethany,…

  • My pledge to buy the Jewel of Medina is just one signatory away from being fulfilled, so if you haven’t already signed up, please do. Since I launched the pledge, the publishers Gibson Square have postponed the publication of the book indefinitely, which means that the firebombers may have won. Shelina Zahra Janmohamed has also…

  • A victory for common sense: A US judge has thrown out a case against God, ruling that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served. So, after thousands of years of theology, it comes down to a judge in Nebraska. If he isn’t omnipresent, that rules out pantheism and panentheism and leaves…

  • For those of you who missed it this morning, here is a quote from today’s Thought for the Day by The Rt Rev. James Jones: Tomorrow Daniel enters the Lion’s Den up here in Liverpool. The author of the report that recommends ‘ the rolling up’ of the regeneration strategies of the Northern cities is…