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Religion

April 2024

  • Olivia Laing garden for Books

    Safe haven or symbol of injustice? What our gardens tell us about the world we live in

  • Sarah Perry.

    Books interview
    Sarah Perry: ‘For much of my life, I loved God. The echo of that never fades’

March 2024

  • Snakes were used in early Christian ceremonies.

    Book of the day
    Heresy by Catherine Nixey review – book of revelations

  • The Rev Al Sharpton

    Al Sharpton: Trump’s $60 Bibles ‘a spit in the face of people that really believe’

  • a man in a blue suit and blue tie holds a bible

    Book of Donald: Trump hawks special ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles for $60

  • A flag that say "Jesus is my savior/Trump is my president" alongside an American flag tacked to a wooden fence amid trees along a rural road.

    The Exvangelicals review: fine study of faith under fire in the age of Trump

  • Among the exvangelicals: Sarah McCammon on faith, Trump and leaving the churches behind

  • Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson review – rich literary reading of the first book of the Bible

  • The heavy hand of God: Europe’s brutalist churches – in pictures

February 2024

  • Portrait of author Catherine Coldstream in Oxford, February 2024

    ‘Being a nun was the great love story of my life’: Catherine Coldstream on why she joined – then fled – a convent

    Why would a privileged, educated 27-year-old turn her back on life to join a silent order of nuns in remote Northumberland?
  • Illustration of person wearing black under a novel while big eyes with glasses loom in the back

    Why I hope my parents won’t read my novel

    To write about sex and queer lust is a pursuit filled with such anxiety-stirring shame that even as I write this, my pulse rises

    • Author Peter Ackroyd: ‘You eat a great deal of knowledge. You sick it up. And then you start again’

    • Making sense of it
      You don’t have to follow a particular God to say a prayer. The words are all that matter

      Jackie Bailey

    • Namesake by NS Nuseibeh review – the pen and the sword

January 2024

  • Protesters make their way to the cemetery in Mahsa Amini’s home town of Saqqez, to mark 40 days since her death in 2022.

    What Iranians Want by Arash Azizi review – the quest for a normal life

    Nearly 18 months after the death of Mahsa Amini, a detailed and hopeful record of the movement that grew in its wake

December 2023

  • A section of the Milky Way galaxy.

    Why? The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff review – a real poser

  • Donald Trump holds a Bible outside St John’s Church in Washington DC.

    The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory review: Trump and his evangelical believers

November 2023

  • A picture of Donald Trump hangs outside a house in West Des Moines, Iowa, in January 2016.

    Trump called Iowa evangelicals ‘so-called Christians’ and ‘pieces of shit’, book says

    Mockery over ‘Two Corinthians’ slip and endorsement battles in 2016 echo in 2024 race as Republican contenders seek first win

August 2023

  • Faith leaders pray with Donald Trump during a rally at the King Jesus International Ministry church in Miami, in January 2020.

    Losing Our Religion review: Trump and the crisis of US Christianity

    Russell Moore, formerly of the Southern Baptist Convention, thinks evangelicals have come dangerous adrift of morality

July 2023

  • An Asian hornet’s nest.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar

    Answers soon become questions of faith as this full-stop-studded poem refuses to mean what the hasty reader might think
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