Columns
Christianity and Secular Government
Right at the beginning of history, we discover a clear political dimension to reality. The creation accounts reveal that it is God who rules. After establishing his rule and order God hands over the maintenance of that order to humankind...
The Anti-Terror Laws
This week the nation has shared the indescribable trauma of the Bigley family as they await news of British hostage Kenneth Bigley. The rise in hostage-taking in Iraq is just one example of the unintended consequences of the high anxiety about terrorism post-9/11 and following the war in Iraq...
Study shows Protestant Ministers want to evangelise Non-Christian Faith Groups
Study results being released for the first time in the September/October edition of Facts & Trends magazine show the vast majority of Protestant clergy in this country feel strongly that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ, and that they believe Christians have a responsibility to try to convert active members of non-Christian faith groups...
Love's Got Nothing To Do With It
With all the wrangling over same-sex marriage within both secular and religious circles, the debate seems stalemated. And one reason Christian debaters have not succeeded is that they overlook one simple fact: Biblical love is not based on romance...
Don't blame God, Dr Williams
It is depressing to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, confess on Radio Four that the Beslan atrocity has made him doubt his faith. Asked, "Does your faith not tremble just a tiny bit?" he replied, "Of course it does. Yes, there is a flicker, there is a doubt...
Religious Ethics Clash with Loan Practices
American democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has brought the issue to the forefront by proposing a sweeping ban on a series of "abusive" loan types that he says are costing consumers in the United States upwards of $9 billion a year...
A Harvest of the Spirit
Over the next few weekends, churches will be awash with tinned food, packets of cereals and displays of local produce. Improbably large marrows will jostle with baskets of fruit, loaves of bread and sheaves...
Suffer the Children
Treatment of children comes as close to a universal human measurement of humane civilisation as any test we might try to devise. Nazi concentration camp guards bayoneted Jewish children into the gas...
Engaging the City of Man: Christian Faith and Politics
Over the last 20 years, evangelical Christians have been politically mobilised in an outpouring of moral concern and political engagement unprecedented since the 19th century crusade against slavery...