Monthly Archives: February 2012

Dawkins and Williams: No knockout, but a success!

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

The commentators are unusually united: yesteday’s debate between Archbishop Rowan and Richard Dawkins lacked a ‘knockout punch’. Among colleagues in Oxford, there was general agreement that no-one had a decisive victory.  For all that, Dawkins was the only one who … Continue reading →

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Secularism and Christianity: A Round-up of the Week

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

Few weeks pass by with such an intense succession of stories about the relationship between Christianity and the state, and about the (a)political role of Christian values and practice.  Perhaps there is something to be said for new stories in … Continue reading →

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Multiculturalism: a Christian retrieval

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

“Is it possible for a society marked by deep ethnic and religious diversity to identify a workable framework for deep diversity which does justice to all communities?” Answering this question is the burden of Jonathan Chaplin’s recent Theos booklet entitled … Continue reading →

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