Author: Terry Sanderson

Baroness Warsi needs to be challenged on her theocratic ambitions

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Religion is shrinking: and it only has itself to blame

The perception that Americans are an overwhelmingly church-going, evangelically conservative people took another knock... Read More »

Politicians and “faith leaders” make a gruesome combination

Many will write it off as red meat being thrown to the raving fundamentalists on the back bench of the Tory Party,... Read More »

These imbecilic riots must serve to reinforce our commitment to freedom

It is estimated that throughout the Muslim world something like ten to twenty thousand people have taken part in the... Read More »

Hospitals axed, wages cut, frontline staff dispensed with – but Chaplains are sitting pretty

Several alarming headlines over the past few weeks have indicated that hospitals up and down the country are about... Read More »

Those census statistics explained

A new study of what people mean when they say they are "religious" or "spiritual" has been published by the Oxford... Read More »

Are parliament’s theocrats about to have their day?

When the Conservative-led coalition Government came to power at the last election we braced ourselves for a raised... Read More »

Here’s hoping the European Court can bring an end to this campaign of distortion over religious discrimination

In providing one of the few "dissenting voices" in the media discussion of the cases of supposed religious discrimination... Read More »

Leave Citizen Khan alone! Po-faced, humourless Muslim protestors are their own worst enemy

The new BBC sitcom Citizen Khan has, apparently, created something of a stir among Muslims. The BBC is reporting having... Read More »

Disillusion for the revolutionaries who thought the Arab Spring would bring freedom and secularism

The tightening of the grip of political Islam on the Middle East continues apace. Those young people who put their... Read More »

Has the BBC Trust killed vigorous debate about religion on our national broadcaster?

The BBC Trust – which advertises itself as the "final arbiter in complaints to the BBC" — has upheld a... Read More »

Religious differences are reinforced by misguided enthusiasts like Tony Blair

Tony Blair has been on the public platform again talking about how important religion is for everybody – even... Read More »

'Faith' schools are becoming a menace

A couple of weeks ago, the Bishop of Oxford — who is the Church of England's spokesman on education —... Read More »

The myth of the Nadia Eweida case gets another dishonest outing

During an exchange at Prime Minister's Question Time yesterday, David Cameron was asked by David Davis MP about the... Read More »

Is the Church of England at death’s door or has it found a new lease of life?

The Church of England is either in its last desperate death throes or it is making a concerted effort to revive itself... Read More »

Rowan Williams has acquired a backbone – but it’s all too late

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams is demob-happy.

It seems that since he announced his resignation he feels... Read More »

The Catholic push for power is failing

Yesterday the Catholic Church in America began a campaign it calls "A Fortnight for Freedom" which it says is an effort... Read More »

Why the Church must not win in this confrontation with the state

The Church of England has thrown down the gauntlet to the Government over the issue of gay marriage.

The message is... Read More »

The wailing pope and his dirty laundry

By Terry Sanderson

It's always a pleasure to read that the Pope is upset. Nobody deserves to be upset more than His... Read More »

The Catholic Church is trying to flex its political muscle to humiliate Obama – but does it still have the strength?

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has ramped up the Catholic Church's politically motivated assault on the Obama... Read More »

Are some Christian politicians deliberately trying to mislead us – or are they just ignorant of the facts?

In a parliamentary question last week, Karl McCartney, the Conservative MP for Lincoln, asked the Minister for Women... Read More »

Hitler, Stalin, Obama and a belligerent Catholic Church

The Catholic Church seems to be turning itself from being a religious body into being a rather unpleasant political... Read More »

Easter sermons: self-serving and dishonest

It's a Bank Holiday, half the staff in the newsroom are on leave, but news editors still have to somehow fill their... Read More »

Prime Minister’s dissembling, hypocritical and disingenuous speech to religious leaders

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, gave an Easter reception for Christian leaders at Downing Street this week at which... Read More »

Persecuted Christian story follows familiar pattern of newspaper distortion

A familiar pattern emerged this week in the latest "Christians are being persecuted at work" case to reach an employment... Read More »