Columns

It was right to strip Fred Goodwin of his knighthood

Fred Goodwin should take responsibility and apologise for his part in creating the financial crisis

Good end-of-life care is better than legalising assisted suicide

this is a debate about aesthetics, or what it might mean to live with an embarrassing and often not very beautiful disease

Surely the biblical onus is on the Church to provide for the poor?

The government could argue that it is following a biblical principle in seeking to eliminate fraud, laziness and cheating

Welfare and work

We do no one any favours when we let them think we can live without any regard to the financial consequences

Leaving a legacy

You might be surprised at the value of the things that you leave behind

Have spiritual takeaways become the church's menu of choice?

Increasingly people want to be Christians without bothering too much with the Bible

Should we really be suing the church?

I simply cannot understand how any senior clergyman can even contemplate, let alone justify, taking the church to court

Independence: Is the dream of freedom ever completed?

does any truly independent nation exist anywhere on this planet?

The Government must be tougher if it's to tackle excessive drinking

Many people simply do not ‘get’ the sensible drinking message

Needed: a new generation of missional leaders

We often think that the gospel it is about how God serves and meets our needs rather than about God and what He is doing in the world

Nigeria needs help if it is to crush Boko Haram

Nigeria's churches remain in the frontline between the Judaeo-Christian values underpinning Western civilisation and the medieval barbarism wanting to impose Sharia Law

The law should preserve life

The current law may not be perfect, it is the best show in town

Mission on the margins

When the church takes its calling seriously the most amazing things can happen

We need not fear the future

If there ever was a moment for sharing our good news it’s now

Why David Cameron's Bible speech matters

It's the timing of Mr Cameron's intervention that makes it so important

Christopher Hitchens’s common grace

On real tyranny, the sort that sucks away the lifeblood of free societies, Hitchens was right