Columns

Are some people lazy or just hard up?

We must never forget the needs of those who have been driven, or have even recklessly fallen into debt and poverty

The politics of Christmas

Christmas will remain domesticated and apolitical. Just like most of our church life.

The offence of the crass vs the offence of the cross

If Jesus were speaking in Britain today, there is little doubt he would been arrested for incitement to religious hatred

The church and the re-moralisation of Britain

Christianity could find itself back in demand from the political and media establishment

How should we respond to a suicide?

Suffering can drive us to despair or into the arms of an ever-faithful God

Public sector pensions - time for a reality check

Everyone wants a pension but nobody wants to pay for one

Greed and why we have ten commandments, not nine

Blame can be born out of anger or a sense of injustice, but those sentiments can easily blind us to the log in our own eye

Democracy vs adolescent capitalism

You can see why some feel that protest and peaceful awkwardness is the only option if politicians are impotent and nobody else will listen

Hard times need not be a faith killer

The ‘problem of evil’ has not dealt a deathblow to faith

Comparing gay activists to Nazis will harm, not help Christian witness

When we do not speak in such a way that a possible antagonist understands us, we should be silent.

Has the church become part of the problem and not the solution?

Many an Old Testament prophet would have understood the feelings of those camping outside St Paul’s

Remembrance Sunday and what we might be forgetting

It is the Church’s role to remind people of certain spiritual things which society constantly tends to forget

The St Paul's fiasco is symptomatic of Anglican confusion

No political camp has a monopoly of virtue

Fallen dictators and notions of hell

When an instrument of evil and oppression in the world at large is overthrown we are surely right to rejoice

Do we really need Halloween?

Even the most resolute atheist must surely be troubled at the growing trend for ever-more-gruesome masks and costumes