Jenny Taylor
An established media professional, academic and writer, she trained with Yorkshire Post Newspapers and became the first race reporter in the Westminster Press Group, disconcertingly finding herself interviewing her heartthrob Cat Stevens, just after he became Yusuf Islam. She has travelled widely seeing the work of civil society organizations all over Asia and Africa at first hand. She is an expert on the connection between faith and culture, on which she has addressed parliamentary and Commonwealth gatherings. Her doctorate is from SOAS in London on Islam and secularization.
Thatcher's religion
by - 17th April 2013
If ever there were a need for religious literacy in world affairs, it is today with the passing of Lady Thatcher.
For if commentators don’t take her faith into the overall account of her political career, it is not possible to understand her.
People got hurt. But the country itself was dying. People have short memories. Or else they were cocooned from what menaced Britain up to the 1970s and beyond.
Edward Heath had declared a State of Emergency five times in three years.
The communist-inspired strikes that
Read more »‘Students want old-fashioned dates back’ – US research
by - 7th March 2013
‘Too much sex – the sexualisation of society?’ Read Donna de Freitas and Jenny Taylor in The Tablet for the Westminster Faith Debate.
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The Christians who run a Delhi madrasa
by - 31st October 2012
As Islamophobia Awareness Month starts on Friday 2 November at the London Muslim Centre, here’s an example of Islamophilia, sent me by a Muslim friend, that might cheer things on a bit.
Christians in Delhi are running a madrasa for girls in a slum district.
They’re not just any old Christians either. They’re the inheritors of the extraordinary legacy of the Cambridge Brotherhood (since renamed Delhi Brotherhood Society) who founded St Stephen’s Hospital and St Stephen’s School – alma mater of Rajiv Gandhi.
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