Newly discovered ‘Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others’ shows the Enlightenment thinker expressing unexpected social liberalismA “once in a generation” discovery of a centuries-old manuscript by John Locke shows the great English philosopher making his earliest arguments for religious toleration, with the scholar who unearthed it calling the document...

Church of England data shows 8% of ordinands were BAME last year, up from 4% in 2016The proportion of people from a black and minority ethnic background training to become Church of England priests has doubled.Eight per cent of new ordinands – trainee priests – were from a BME background...