Christine Rayner

Long-term journalist, former editor of four local newspapers in Kent, now freelance writer and university lecturer

Written Content

Religion news 13 November 2024

The Archbishop of Csnterbury has resigned – unprecedented, honourable, seismmic, tragic, acutely painful; “Take off your mitre” and listen to victims; “To resign taking responsibility for negligence has no precedent for Canterbury”

Religion news 6 November 2024

Trump has the advantage and Pennsylvania remains key; America at prayer in the election that is dividing a nation; Cathedrals on Christmas stamps

Religion news 9 October 2024

US decline of religion has led to a search for identity, says Biden’s faith adviser; Bullying claims against Scotland’s first female bishop thrown out; Oxford freshers trained to combat antisemitism and Islamophobia

Religion news 2 October 2024

Tear Fund: Lebanon ‘on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe’; Impact of war on British Jews and Muslims “mirrors each other”; 100th milestone in the faith journey of President Jimmy Carter

Religion news 18 September 2024

Security minister: It would not be Britain without its Jewish community; Lawyers criticise sacking of vicar who called female priests ‘witches’;‘Lib Dem bill to scrap school assemblies; Mass on beach marks 800th anniversary of Franciscans in UK

Religion news 14 August 2024

Payoff for priest alleged to pose risk to children; Welby condemned for ‘unbiblical’ Palestine ruling; Kenyan sect leader in court for manslaughter of 429 people