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Party political identity and Christianity: The conference season

What if Christians start taking their party identity more seriously than loving their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ?

Are you bored?

If boredom is perceived to be a critical threat to our wellbeing, then the church is presented with a unique set of challenges in its outreach

Thank the Good Lord for parliamentary democracy

There is a whiff of Weimar about British politics at the moment

A common enemy

Unless we realise that our common enemy is a spiritual one, we will continue to seek adversaries in this world, which can only lead to strife and war.

Now the dust has settled

When we look at the tragic events of 9/11 we cannot avoid recognising that the West played a part in sowing the seed of that terrible day

Nadine Dorries and why her abortion proposals failed

Christian campaign groups relied too heavily on an MP who is notoriously unreliable in her willingness to trust others

The Scottish Government should not redefine marriage

If marriage can be redefined for homosexual marriage, why not redefine it to allow polygamy?

Why men hate going to church

There is something about church that puts men off

Political identity in the abortion debates

Nadine Dorries' amendment will improve the choice women have in relation to abortion

Let your yes be yes and no, no

When a Christian campaign group accuses somebody of saying something which they did not say our good news is discredited

Exam results and why children shouldn’t be given money to learn

If children are paid to learn, they will grow to regard it as a chore to be done solely in order to get a reward

Somalia is this decade’s outcast

We must not allow Somalia to become the new breeding ground for terrorism

The Christian case for capital punishment

There is sound ‘image of God’ theology about the dignity of human accountability

Engaging with those on the margins

It's time to move beyond the blame game

The church must fill the moral vacuum

The government, the media, the police and financial institutions have been discredited by their own misdemeanours

Riots and God

These terrible events have simply strengthened my own belief that Britain desperately needs to go back to the Maker's instructions, the Ten Commandments