It’s time for Christians to make monasteries great again — [Click here to listen to the podcast form of this article.] Every morning I go on a walk past a river, beside a centuries-old working millpond, into a graveyard and apple-laden church ground, and through the ruins of a twelfth-century abbey. If you walk around my village, you’ll see dozens…

And should we be concerned about vaccine passports? — I’ve been avoiding publishing any articles on vaccines because it’s an absurdly contentious subject that wins you no friends and makes you quite a few enemies. It’s an issue plagued with political ideologies, conflicts of interests, bad faith arguments, issue conflation, terrible research, and appallingly stupid false dichotomies. But alas…

The kids in my Sunday school class are worried about Covid-19. And rightly so. Since Christmas, it’s spread to 87 countries and nearly 100,000 people. One model suggests, by late May, we could see as many as 2 million cases diagnosed in a single day. One expert estimates over 500…