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Are Brits really abandoning their Christian faith?

Are Brits really abandoning their Christian faith?
30.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Magic power / What happened to children’s hobbies?

16.02.2025 9

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

What happened to children’s hobbies?

13.02.2025 10

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

A real keeper / My wife earns more than me – and it doesn’t feel great

17.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

A real keeper / My wife earns more than me – and it doesn’t feel great

16.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

My wife earns more than me – and it doesn’t feel great

16.01.2025 7

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Religion / Jordan Peterson should make his mind up about Christianity

Jordan Peterson is a cross between a student who has lately discovered the meaning of life, and a professor who has known it all along. In an...

04.01.2025 5

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Jordan Peterson should make his mind up about Christianity

Jordan Peterson is a cross between a student who has lately discovered the meaning of life, and a professor who has known it all along. In an...

04.01.2025 5

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

How to save the parish church

Parish churches are in trouble: about fifty churches close every year, according to a report from Civitas. The review, published last month,...

22.12.2024 10

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Shame on George Carey

There are many grey areas in this safeguarding saga. So it is nice when some black and white emerges. It is surely impossible for anyone to doubt...

18.12.2024 30

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Love vs lust / Lily Phillips is scared of real sex

A young woman called Lily Phillips, known to certain users of the internet, has recently spoken about a cunning stunt she performed earlier this...

11.12.2024 3

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Masterchef gives me the creeps

Eating porridge with my daughter this morning (me brown sugar; her honey) I was telling her about Ready Brek, and the boy in the advert going to...

04.12.2024 5

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Religion / Are Christian holiday camps a force for good?

In my early teenage years, I attended Christian holiday camps very like the ‘Bash’ camps where John Smyth and Justin Welby prayed in the same...

17.11.2024 1

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Why did so many Christians vote for Trump?

It’s hard to know what to say about Donald Trump. Well, maybe it’s easy enough if you’re a fan, or if you are an opponent who’s very sure that the...

08.11.2024 2

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

The trouble with Guy Fawkes night

My reaction to fireworks is a bit eccentric. Lovely, I think, but can’t they be more meaningful? To be more precise, this is my view of Bonfire...

05.11.2024 7

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Justin Welby’s homosexuality reforms could still backfire

Last week, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury since 2013, started leading the Church of England. He got off the fence on homosexuality and...

29.10.2024 3

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Justin Welby has made a huge shift on homosexuality

Forget Nixon in China. That phrase needs renaming: Welby on sexuality. For it is now at last clear that he has shifted his position on...

25.10.2024 3

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

Has Britain really entered its ‘first atheist age’?

Some sociology academics have, after a three-year research project called ‘Exploring Atheism’, unveiled a startling discovery: there are a lot of...

13.10.2024 10

The Spectator

Theo Hobson

The unlikely Christian conversion of Russell Brand

Questioning the sincerity of a fellow Christian’s faith is a big no-no. It would be wrong, then, to doubt the sincerity of Russell Brand’s...

09.10.2024 3

The Spectator

Theo Hobson