Julian Mann

Once conversion therapy is criminalised, the pulpit will be next

If the LGBT lobby wins the battle to get conversion therapy criminalised, it is clear what their next target will be â public Christian preaching.

Charges against Christian politician are because of 'discriminatory hate speech'

Finland's state prosecutors are pushing back against the international outcry over the charges against a Christian politician by describing her statements on marriage and sexuality as "discriminatory hate speech".

A Finnish politician is facing jail for her Biblical beliefs: could the same happen here?

Will a court in a democratic country like Finland really have the stomach to send a politician and a church leader to jail for their Christian convictions on sex and marriage?

The arrest of another Christian street preacher could prove costly for the Met

In July 2019, Pastor Oluwole Ilesanmi won Â£2,500 in exemplary damages from the Met for 'false arrest, imprisonment and unlawful detention'. Could we see a repeat of this?

To vote or not to vote?

Is the Mail on Sunday columnist and Anglican Christian, Peter Hitchens, right about not voting in elections?

Jonathan Fletcher and the cancer of careerism among conservative evangelicals

There has been a recognisable career structure in that world in which Fletcher wielded such power.

Are there lessons for us here in the present Myanmar crisis?

History tells us we shouldn't be so naive as to think this could never happen here.

Would the BBC have dared spoof Islam?

I am not calling for comedies poking fun at Christianity to be banned but one has to wonder why it's open season on our faith and not others.

The Church of England's pick-and-mix approach to biblical truth only confirms my decision to leave

I left the Church of England last year after 23 years as an ordained minister. Looking at how things are shaping up with the Living in Love and Faith process, I can't say I regret my move.

Could Nigel Farage break the stranglehold of lockdown parties that have forced churches to close?

I would like to see my country being 'godly and quietly governed', to quote the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Lockdown parties do not seem conducive to that. Perhaps Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party would do better.

Christianity and science are not incompatible

In 23 years of ordained ministry in the Church of England, I came across many people who assumed that science has 'disproved' Christianity. Having a blind faith in this assumption, they seemed to have been brainwashed by the educational system and the mainstream media.