‘Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbles Jo at the beginning of Little Women. But 2020 proved her wrong. Thanks to Jeff Bezos and his merry band of delivery elves, for many people sending and receiving shoals of presents was one of the few remaining Yuletide consolations – and it was terrible. With millions condemned to solitary confinement, even the softest cashmere scarf or silliest festive jumper proved a hollow mockery when the giver was marooned, flickering at the other end of a Facetime call....
A new case for Christianity is rising from New Atheism’s ashes
The “scorched earth” anti-theist view of religion has given way to a form of identification that is cultural, if not necessarily spiritual