Giles Fraser

Giles Fraser is a journalist, broadcaster and Vicar of St Anne's, Kew.

@giles_fraser

Our narcissistic view of death

05 Mar 2021

Jewish privilege is a myth

18 Feb 2021

Why is the Church so woke?

12 Feb 2021

We’ll have to shut some empty churches

05 Feb 2021

Sneering scientists won’t win over anti-vaxxers

28 Jan 2021

Scepticism is not always the answer

21 Jan 2021

Don’t call Israel an apartheid state

15 Jan 2021

How my drinking lost its virtue

07 Jan 2021

Why chaos is good for Boris — and Brexit

01 Jan 2021

Why my church doors are staying open

25 Dec 2020

Hope rises from the rubble of my church

17 Dec 2020

Maybe Scrooge was right

03 Dec 2020

We don’t need more spreadsheet vicars

26 Nov 2020

Jeremy Corbyn is nothing without Labour

19 Nov 2020

Jonathan Sacks spoke to us all

09 Nov 2020

Boris Johnson doesn’t get God

06 Nov 2020

Why bishops shouldn’t stay out of politics

22 Oct 2020

Bad taste is killing good wine

15 Oct 2020

Can the Church solve its paedophile problem?

07 Oct 2020

Why lockdown is a moral mess

01 Oct 2020

Why Covid can’t cancel Christmas

25 Sep 2020

Why the new inquisition came for David Hume

14 Sep 2020

Has lockdown left you with existential angst?

03 Sep 2020

Futurists forget that we have bodies

20 Aug 2020

Exposing the fake God James Alison writes theology as if his life depended upon it

14 Aug 2020

The proud history of Tory socialism

13 Aug 2020

The neoliberal revolution within the Church

06 Aug 2020

WATCH: The Christian case against ‘morality’ My lecture at Sheffield University explored that uneasy relationship

31 Jul 2020

Church philistines have got high culture all wrong

30 Jul 2020

Have I become a bourgeois cliche?

23 Jul 2020

What has human sacrifice got to do with Twitter? Ask René Girard The French theologian's theory of mimetic desire maps onto the platform

21 Jul 2020

Even excommunication is better than cancellation

16 Jul 2020

The Hagia Sophia is for prayer, not pictures Recep Erdogan is right: the faithful must return to this holy space

10 Jul 2020

How HR is strangling the Church of England

09 Jul 2020

The Church shouldn’t hide its sordid past

02 Jul 2020

Digging up King David in the Israeli mountains Archaeologists are unearthing a very different account of Jewish history

30 Jun 2020

Was my diabetes a symbol of moral failure?

25 Jun 2020

Is there anything left to bind us together?

18 Jun 2020

The C of E has forgotten the power of the parish The Church is the last to appreciate this treasure

17 Jun 2020

How cancel culture makes liars of us all

11 Jun 2020

Trump’s biblical power play

04 Jun 2020

These bullying bishops aren’t brave

29 May 2020

Netanyahu’s trial is a test of Israel’s democracy The Prime Minister's trial began on Sunday

26 May 2020

Apocalyptos miss the heart of the Christian story Escaping to a bunker during a crisis will only get you so far

18 May 2020

How travel narrows the mind

14 May 2020

‘Stay alert’ is not precise — but it is meaningful Those who conflate the two are being disingenuous

11 May 2020

How much is a human life worth? A Telegraph columnist has tried to put a figure on it

08 May 2020

Zoom takes away a piece of our souls

07 May 2020

Let priests pray in their churches It is an act of defiance against C-19

04 May 2020

The C of E has retreated to the kitchen The Church has lost confidence in its own values

01 May 2020

Why coronavirus is a laughing matter

30 Apr 2020

The tragic hubris of modern city planning A new book shows how post-war cities are turning into ghost towns

28 Apr 2020

Don’t let the bean-counters abolish our army regiments Military subdivision describes the basis of our wider moral solidarity

24 Apr 2020

Are we ready for the next coronation?

23 Apr 2020

Do I have a moral duty to lose weight? To protect the NHS, I'm on a lockdown diet

20 Apr 2020

What does it mean to be a liberal? When it became an adjective as well as a noun, the word's definition got out of hand

17 Apr 2020

My eulogy for Boris

16 Apr 2020

Nicky Gumbel’s Confessions Giles sits down with the Anglican priest and pioneer of the Alpha course to talk family, faith and doubt

10 Apr 2020

Where is God in this Covid horror?

10 Apr 2020

Virtual Seder was almost as good as the real thing But nothing will replace the physical togetherness of Judaism and Christianity

09 Apr 2020

The Queen calls time on the snowflake generation She is right that this crisis is re-kindling fellow feeling

06 Apr 2020

GPs should not play God during Covid If there are no medical issues at stake, doctors have no right to decide what lives are worth saving

03 Apr 2020

The Magnificent Seven is a post-liberal idyll

02 Apr 2020

What Emmanuel Levinas would have to say about Zoom The French philosopher argued that ethics is rooted in the face-to-face encounter

30 Mar 2020

Secularists have reached a new low They are trying to poison inter-faith relations

27 Mar 2020

The bright side of death

26 Mar 2020

Zoom eucharist felt like an episode of Masterchef — and I loved it Online church services are starting to feel like food programmes

23 Mar 2020

Christ the Redeemer is the perfect antidote to Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ The famous statue offers a touching expression of global solidarity

20 Mar 2020

Coronavirus has locked my congregation out

19 Mar 2020

Jonathan Sacks: why does Richard Dawkins single out Jews? In my latest podcast, the former Chief Rabbi asks why atheists target the Old Testament God over the New

17 Mar 2020

What we can learn from the disgraced

13 Mar 2020

The malicious anticlericalism of Lord Adonis The former Oxford student has thrown more poison over the Matryn Percy case

06 Mar 2020

How coronavirus plays into Trump’s hands

05 Mar 2020

Proportional representation has trapped Israel in a ghost story For a brief moment during Brexit I thought PR was the way to go. I should have known better.

02 Mar 2020

Pubs, not cafes, are the home of public conversation Unlike coffee, alcohol creates a space in which people can freely engage with each other

28 Feb 2020

How Jean Vanier abused my trust

27 Feb 2020

Please, Rory, let us sleep in peace The night is for sleeping — not political campaigning

24 Feb 2020

Bloomberg the nerd won’t beat Trump

20 Feb 2020

Churches are closing down — I won’t let mine be one of them The bricks of a church are a statement of Christian defiance

17 Feb 2020

Sex-obsessed conservatives are wrong about families

13 Feb 2020

Advice for the BBC’s next director-general Why the BBC and the Church of England have a great deal in common

10 Feb 2020

St Hilda’s demolishes its chapel, and the humanists crow A 'multi-faith space' is about as spiritual as a dentist's waiting room

07 Feb 2020

I don’t miss the nastiness of the Left

06 Feb 2020

Office sports chat doesn’t ‘exclude’ anyone It is not, as a BBC interviewee puts it, a gateway drug to more offensive behaviour

27 Jan 2020

I disagree with the Church about sex, but I’m not leaving Ambivalence about the church you are a member of is not disloyalty, it is maturity

24 Jan 2020

How to argue with a racist

23 Jan 2020

The sixteenth century roots of Gwyneth Paltrow’s candle A new book reveals how our attitude to smell was set relatively recently

20 Jan 2020

No, Guy Verhofstadt, citizenship is not a Netflix subscription The latest idea from the EU is part of a wider loss of the importance place

17 Jan 2020

Raise your glass to Roger Scruton, the terroiriste

16 Jan 2020

Meghan’s liberalism ignores the importance of family Turbo-charged with celebrity, it holds out the fantasy that you can make it on your own

10 Jan 2020

Freud would know why we’re all workaholics

09 Jan 2020

Let’s hear it for the Left-wing regressives! All this talk of progress among Labour hopefuls is missing the point

07 Jan 2020

Are human rights overtaking democracy? Lord Sumption raises important questions about the mission creep of human rights

06 Jan 2020

What’s the point of civil partnerships?

03 Jan 2020

Our modern parenting is making monsters

30 Dec 2019

Is it immoral to let children believe in Santa? Make-believe stories exist and are sustained precisely because we believe in them

27 Dec 2019

How I became ‘Tory scum’

19 Dec 2019

Labour’s problems all start at university Students cutting their ties from their home town is more of a problem for Labour than they realise

16 Dec 2019

Can our shattered nation survive this election?

12 Dec 2019