Author: Stephen Tomkins
Author: Stephen Tomkins Writes for: Guardian News feed: Web links: Author ranking: 257 Number of articles found: 10 |
Wilberforce was complicit in slavery | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 11:59 AM 3rd Aug 2010
William Wilberforce, the most celebrated campaigner against the slave trade, was also implicated in slavery and the trade , according to a forthcoming book about him and the Clapham sect, written, it so happens, by me. Having given 20 years of his life to the struggle, after . . . .
Oops, we forgot Jesus's women | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 11:14 AM 30th Jul 2010
Was it a hilarious howler or does he simply not like women? The pope's new children's book, The Friends of Jesus , tells the stories of 14 of Jesus's closest friends, but omitted to include any women, despite Jesus's celebrated friendship with several of the less Catholic sex, . . . .
Behind the Godblock | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 9:59 AM 15th Jul 2010
Your family computer may be protected from internet nasties like porn and viruses. But is it protected from the ultimate virus? What's to stop religion infiltrating innocent minds and perpetuating itself across another generation of hapless faith victims? Well, Godblock . . . .
Why can't Rooney do religion? | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 10:59 AM 18th Jun 2010
Just as New Labour didn't do God, until Gordon Brown discovered the value of his family connections, neither, it turns out, do the FA . Mark Whittle, the FA's head of media relations, stopped Wayne Rooney talking about his cross , rosary and Catholic faith in a press briefing, . . . .
Ebion, the fictional heretic | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 12:15 PM 11th Jun 2010
My favourite heretic in Christian history is a man called Ebion. He never existed, but had interesting and revealing reasons for not doing so. The movement he founded, the Ebionites , did exist. It was one of the earliest Christian heresies – necessarily so because it . . . .
The religious right vs Comedy Central | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 2:00 PM 9th Jun 2010
A new organisation has been formed by the US religious right to attack a programme that hasn't yet reached pilot stage. JC , a Comedy Central cartoon about Jesus trying to live a normal life in New York, does not have a completed script, but Citizens Against Religious Bigotry . . . .
Christian parties take a hammering | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 11:45 AM 14th May 2010
It's the morning after the fight before, and it looks like everyone lost. Labour lost power, the Liberal Democrats lost credibility, and the Conservatives lost the right to blame anyone else for the economic and political havoc of the year ahead. How do the prospects look from . . . .
Policies you should believe in | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 12:21 PM 2nd May 2010
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have offered a pre-election message to Christians, and I suppose anyone who will listen, telling us how to vote. Surprisingly perhaps, they came out for Ukip. Actually their recommendations are rather less specific than that, and you . . . .
The Christian tradition of politics | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 8:00 AM 9th Apr 2010
The Christian church, you may have noticed, has a kind of inverted sex mania. We don't approve of sex, we don't like it or trust it, we don't even do it very well, but we can't stop thinking about it. We complain like hell about having it shoved in our faces in public places, . . . .
Should we observe Easter or Earth Hour? | Stephen Tomkins
Source: Guardian - Date: 10:00 AM 29th Mar 2010
It takes a lot of faith to imagine that a 2000-year-old story about the world magically going dark when God died is going to be as much help in our environmental crisis as actually turning things off. But then again, faith in the implausible is one of the many life skills . . . .
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