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Rupert Shortt

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Rupert Shortt is religion editor of the Times Literary Supplement and author of Rowan's Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop

January 2013

  • Coptic Christians at funeral of Pope Shenouda III in Cairo

    Cif belief
    double quotation markIn the Middle East, the Arab spring has given way to a Christian winter

    Rupert Shortt
    Rupert Shortt: Attacks on Christian communities from Iraq to Egypt undermine the region's struggle for broader freedoms

March 2012

  • Pope Benedict and Rowan Williams

    double quotation markThe archbishop of Canterbury's balancing act

    Rupert Shortt
    Rupert Shortt: Rowan Williams's great success was not in dealing with gay clergy or women bishops, so much as offering fairness to the whole church