MORALITY AND THE DECLINE OF CHRISTIAN FAITH
by Kenan Malik
This essay, on the relationship between Christianity and morality, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 10 September 2023, under the headline “Our retreat from Christianity doesn’t mean we’ve lost our sense of morality“. A shape less recognisable each week,A purpose more obscure. I wonder whoWill be the last, the very last, to seekThis place for what it was… So mused Philip Larkin in his 1954 poem “Church Going”, about a visit to an empty church, to take its […]
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