Which stories stories involving religion generated headlines in 2021? In the last media briefing of the year, the team of Religion Media Centre journalists and guests reviewed the headlines, such as Covid-19 transforming worship and communities, grass roots strengths of faith groups reaching vulnerable people on the front line, moral judgments on refugees, Boris Johnson & catholicism, climate change, assisted dying, racism and more…
Our journalists Tim Wyatt, Christopher Lamb, Catherine Pepinster and Andrew Brown hosted with guest speakers:
- Rabbi Jonathan Romaine MBE, writer & broadcaster
- Madeleine Davies, Church Times
- Bob Smetiana, Religion News Service
- Dr Peter Phillips, director CODEC Centre
- Andrew Graystone, author
- Jennifer Morris, Young Christian Climate Network
- John McManus, Jesuits in Britain
- Dr Jasjit Singh, University of Leeds
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Report: Review of the year: religion news in 2021
“Boris has a certain reputation … but God works in mysterious ways. And here we have a prime minister who refound God through what some people might call adultery”
– Catherine Pepinster
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