Jenny Taylor

Rebranding religion

by - 13th October 2008

Suddenly Reuters has got itself a Religion Correspondent; the BBC World Service has axed its religion strand and is integrating religion into all its current affairs output by appointing the savvy and penetrating current affairs specialist Christopher Landau - who broke the story of the Archbishop’s shariah speech - as their first Religion Correspondent.  And Newsnight staff, according to my source at Lambeth Palace, are falling back on religious language to discuss the reasons for the financial meltdown.

The role of religious illiteracy in the clash of values

by - 13th October 2008

Jenny TaylorReligion is the heart of all culture and the future depends on a more religiously literate élite, Taylor tells Swiss symposium.

US verdict on Lambeth: “just more talk”

by - 1st August 2008

Briane TurleyAmerican Anglicans at the centre of the row over gay marriage spoke last night of their ‘skepticism’ at the outcome of the Lambeth Conference.

Former Tory chief to head relationships think tank

by - 2nd July 2008

Michael TrendMichael Trend, formerly MP for Windsor, has been appointed as Executive Director of the Cambridge-based policy think-tank Relationships Foundation, with effect from 1 September 2008.

Rudeboy tactics and evangelism

by - 6th June 2008

Ex-media consultant Paul Eddy deliberately wants to embarrass the Church of England into evangelising other faiths in Britain. The 40-year old trainee priest has ‘an agenda’ - as he puts it - to ‘gain access to the mic’.

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