David Robertson
The difference between seeing the stranger and being the stranger
It's easy for well off people to decry this but surely we can understand why someone would want to provide their family with a better life?
Demons and principalities: my problem with Paula White's prayer for the President
Having reflected and 'tested the spirits', let me put this quite simply. This prayer and the whole alignment of Trump as the Messiah (the Anointed) is a shameful and embarrassing episode in the American church's history.
The religious thought police are here
We are becoming an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian society, where even the slightest deviation from the New Orthodoxy means you face an 'investigation'. The media are far too often the unthinking and unwitting parrots of this new State doctrine.
The Lost Message of Chalke
In 'The Lost Message of Paul', Steve Chalke argues that 'all the old narratives are dead' and that we need a 'new story'. But his new story suffers from some major defects.
As Boris Johnson is summoned to court, we should all be worried
When you have one rule for the rich and another for the poor, it's not justice.
Go West: is the American Church the answer to the UK Church's problems?
We need to consider how much the UK church is influenced by the US â and how much of that influence is a good or bad thing.
What's to hate about hate speech?
Christians are the new revolutionaries in our post-truth 'hate-speech' society.
The end is nigh: what extinction has to do with our evangelism
We must not allow our eschatology (theology of the end) to prevent us from fulfilling the creation mandate to be good stewards of the good earth in the present.
Is Britain breaking up?
Should we care? And is there a particular Christian perspective on this? I think so.
Sri Lankan tragedy â prejudice, politicians and the press
In Christchurch it was a mosque that was attacked. In Sri Lanka it was 'places of worship' and 'Easter worshippers'.
The Death of Death
Forget all the romantic images. The Cross is so ugly that even the most hardened turned their faces away. The cruelest form of death that not even Mel Gibson's Passion could show the full extent of the horror.
Censoring the internet â A plea from John Milton
The danger with State (or corporate) censorship is that inevitably we end up excluding much that is good, as well as the bad.
Why has this NHS hospital banned the Bible?
Atheist secularists are able to impose their views on the whole of society because the decision-makers in our culture lack both reason and courage.
Ecclesiastes 10: The Stench of Folly and the Perfume of Christ
David Robertson continues his series looking at the biblical book of Ecclesiastes.
How Michael Curry's sermon revealed the 4 tribes of evangelicals
One of the biggest surprises of That Royal Wedding sermon is the way that is has shown up the fault lines within evangelicalism in the West.
Ecclesiastes 9: The Wisdom of Christ
We live in a culture where the wealthy, the powerful and those who make the most noise are the ones listened to.