Won't somebody think of the children?

Have extremist evangelicals secretly taken over a Welsh state school to indoctrinate vulnerable pupils with their dangerous brand of dogmatism?

Hello! This week we explore a little-noticed story from Wales, where the National Secular Society believes it has uncovered a hardline evangelical church infiltrating a state school to spread its backwards message of creationism and homophobia. But all is not as it seems… Then, we sort through a recently published investigation into how one church in Sheffield carried out a prayer exorcism on a gay congregant, and consider the tensions within conservative churches around maintaining their theology on sexuality while continuing to include gay believers. And finally, we wrap up the latest on the gay blessings saga in the Church of England, wondering what on earth the new evangelical ‘overseers’ are for? There’s also a link to my latest podcast (should Christians be pro or anti technology) and then lots of quickfire news stories (featuring a vicarage-squatting priest, a millennial saint, and a nationalist worship leader).

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