Jenny James Taylor

Will the new Foreign Secretary take religious persecution seriously?

29th August 2019 By Jenny James Taylor

All eyes on Raab as work begins on the Truro Report's 22 recommendations. ... Read Full Article

Ethnic religion is hip in this beautiful photo exhibition

12th June 2019 By Jenny James Taylor

This review first appeared at Religion Unplugged. IT is amazing how drawn the post-religious West is to ethnic religion. Be it ever so weird – Sufi trance in Syria when imams pierce the bodies of devotees with meter-long skewers; hopeless – as when Shia devotees lash themselves to a bloody pulp with razored whips; or ... Read Full Article

Review of The Noble Liar

3rd April 2019 By Jenny James Taylor

Author: Robin Aitken Publisher: Biteback Reviewer: Jenny James Taylor THERE are four things wrong with the society Britain has become: the insistence on ever-increasing prosperity, radical feminism, multiculturalism and political correctness. Unpacking each of these in turn is Robin Aitken’s task in this heroic invective against the cheerleader of all that’s wrong: his old company, ... Read Full Article

Liberalism has its martyrs too: Robin Aitken and the BBC

3rd April 2019 By Jenny James Taylor

'The ills that afflict us as a society cannot be laid at the door of the church or our Christian heritage. They are the fruit of 50 years of liberal revolution.' Such views get you sacked at the BBC. ... Read Full Article

Fighting for life in Britain’s ‘death culture’

27th February 2019 By Jenny James Taylor

Culture warrior Peter Saunders reflects on his long fight as CEO of Britain’s leading anti-euthanasia group. ... Read Full Article

The ‘Prince of the persecuted’ angers scholars

22nd January 2019 By Jenny James Taylor

Does the future King really think his Islamic 'negationism' helps the persecuted? Campaigners and scholars at odds. ... Read Full Article

BREAKING: Government considered abolishing UK’s equalities commission

28th November 2018 By Jenny James Taylor

Serious failings in the Equalities and Human Rights Commission revealed in its ten-year review. ... Read Full Article

My brother the jihadi

22nd August 2018 By Jenny James Taylor

Two years after the harrowing death of jihadi Thomas Evans (aka Abdul Hakim), his brother, Micheal, still has no idea how he was radicalized. ... Read Full Article

Media Research Fellow at Kirby Laing Institute in Cambridge

1st August 2018 By Jenny James Taylor

Helping to undo the eclipse of ethics that is central to the crisis of the West. ... Read Full Article

‘Multiculturalism is defunct’: report spikes UK’s failed dream

1st August 2018 By Jenny James Taylor

The government's Integrated Communities Strategy seeks to row back on seventy years of error, with a mix of ideas it admits are untested. First of two-part look at the report. ... Read Full Article

JENNY JAMES TAYLOR specialises in religious literacy and was appointed Research Fellow in Communication, Media and Journalism at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge in 2019. A Bloomsbury author and campaigner she pioneered religious literacy in journalism, founding Lapido Media in 2005 as a publicly subscribed online newspaper and publisher. Described by historian Tom Holland as 'groundbreaking', it helped to change the national secular discourse by providing resources for journalists needing to ‘get religion’ in an age of globalization. Widely travelled, Taylor has a doctorate in religion from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and has been published many times in academic journals and the mainstream and on-line media including the Guardian, the Times and, in translation, the European press. Her books include Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in ‘Secular’ Britain with Lesslie Newbigin and Lamin Sanneh (SPCK 1998 and Wipf&Stock 2005) and A Wild Constraint (Continuum 2008), an extended essay on contemporary sexuality. An Associate of the Community of St Mary the Virgin, she lives where she was born, in Suffolk.