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
Politics, economics, welfare â the church should be engaged in it all
Isn't salvation for the world too?
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 âproblem of evilâ 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 Paulâs
Remembrance Sunday and what we might be forgetting
It is the Churchâs 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