Re-re-invention (… of Joey Barton)
The announcement that the National Secular Society has made Joey Barton a honorary associate doesn’t really grate on my ego, despite several years of paying membership subscriptions and penning the occasional […]
Tag Archives: Church of England
Easter’s fools
‘… we obviously spend a lot of time celebrating Christmas and thinking about Christmas, but actually, really, Easter in many ways is the one that counts. Even those of us […]
Baroness Warsi: political patsy?
You can’t keep a good zombie argument down, it seems. The grandiosely but confusingly titled Baroness Warsi, ‘Senior Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister for […]
Usury: on the relative ethical acceptability of…
We might sympathise with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s embarrassment and irritation at (the revelation of) the Church of England’s (in-adherence to its own) investment policies. Except it has been here […]
Toeing the toadying line
It is ironic that, in the constitutional republic that is the USA, with its constitutionally enshrined separation of church and state, any pretenders to high public office tend to not […]
The Secular Charter and women (as) bishops
The following is an extension of the previous post, with a version published in the latest edition of The Leicester Secularist. ————————————————– (Image adapted from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20433152) According to the information […]
The Secular Charter and women bishops
According to the information provided by the National Secular Society, secularism is primarily defined as ‘… the strict separation of the state from religious institutions’, with equality before the law […]
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