Columns
Why John Stott’s ‘Christian Counter-Culture’ still challenges the church
After more than 45 years, John Stott’s teaching on the Sermon on the Mount remains a fresh challenge to a church too comfortable with the world.
Generations and consequences
Why did Rebecca tell her younger twin son, Jacob, to deceive his father, Isaac?
After the 2026 Republican meltdown, where now for the GOP and Israel?
The Republican defeat in November’s US midterms has exposed a growing fault line within the MAGA movement.
What do Christian young women and men need to know about the opposite sex and themselves?
The first thing that Christian young women and men need to know is that the Bible is the operating manual for humans.
Trump’s midterm defeat and its implications for Christians on both sides of the Atlantic
America’s power and influence on the world stage, combined with Trump’s unpredictability and volatility, is a worrying mix.
Conversion therapy ban supporters want prayer to be criminalised - this must not be allowed
Christians are already being prosecuted for silent prayer outside abortion clinics. A pernicious law like the one currently being considered in Parliament would only make things worse.
Why the US election results do not bode well for America
Only a return to genuine biblical Christianity can save America from itself.
Are we seeing the end of Western civilisation?
the riots now sweeping across Europe like some foul contagion demonstrate that Western culture is under attack, and that the enemy is within.
The dire American political situation: a brief overview for faithful Christians in Britain
Professor Robert AJ Gagnon argues that Christians have a moral duty to vote Republican, contending that Democratic policies pose a greater threat than Republican candidates’ failings.
The Christian candidate who lost the election but won my respect
Helen Spiby-Vann secured just 63 votes in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, but her campaign made me reconsider the value of an explicitly Christian voice in politics, writes Christian Hacking.
Can we afford the society we have created?
Is spending spiralling out of control? Should the state be doing everything we expect of it, or can we simply no longer afford the society we have created?
The Conversion Practices Bill is weaponised vagueness
Laws to ban so-called 'conversion therapy' are a tool to enforce submission to LGBTQ+ ideology and nothing more.
The questions Britain must answer about Christian free speech
The case of Anita Meston, the teacher sacked by a secondary school for expressing pro-life views, deepens Britain’s reputation for suppressing Christian freedom of speech.
Do we truly give thanks for harvest and the harvesters?
This year’s harvest comes at a crisis moment for British farmers.
When ‘my truth’ replaces the truth
We live in changing times, where feelings about how we “identify” now hold more authority than facts.
Blackburn Cathedral puts the Bible where it belongs
Blackburn Cathedral’s celebration of William Tyndale highlights the Bible’s central place in Anglican worship.
