Columns

Embryos: two parents good, three parents bad?
Designer children are on the way â at least if we are to believe some of the headlines in the press.

Will the Baden-Powells be turning in their graves?
My dismay at the recent changes to the Girl Guides vow, therefore, has less to do with omitting God from the wording, but the utterly inane wording of what is the replacement.

Why we shouldn't send arms to Syria
The conflict in Syria is a very different one from that of the First World War, the centenary of which is now just a few months away.

Report into Lib Dems is a wider indictment of permissive society?
Regrettably our society, since the advent of the permissive society in the 1960s, has been marked by a diminution of sexual restraint.

Deceivers and the deceived: the ethics of journalistic entrapment
As another Parliamentary scandal sinks into the public consciousness, the over-riding impression we are left with once again is of corrupt, untrustworthy MPs and Lords with their snouts in the trough.

Saving the planet was God's idea before it was ours!
A third of global food production is either wasted or lost.

The 60th anniversary of the Queen's coronation and the role of the Bible
The anniversary of the Queen's coronation is surely a reminder that the genuine spiritual revival that Christians seek in this land will most likely only occur when the Word of God is restored to its rightful place in the churches and in the lives of individual Christians.

What we think and what we do
We dare not ignore the role of "ideas" (the "controlling narrative") for what we believe determines what we do

Doesn't official Anglican teaching rule out an inter-faith coronation?
Surely it is not being a 'swivel-eyed loon' to suggest that the coronation of the next Supreme Governor of the Church of England should be faithful to its stated beliefs about the supremacy and uniqueness of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Gay marriage: Christians are experiencing our own kind of exile
Changes to the law on marriage reflect the challenge we have on our hands to win the hearts and minds of the next generation

Crown him with many crowns? Prince Charles and a multi-faith coronation
Will it matter if Prince Charles is crowned king in some sort of multi-faith coronation ceremony?

Right to die â or wrong to kill?
Should people be allowed the right to die with the help of a doctor?

Beyond same-sex marriage: the Gospel remains our most important message to the world
The final vote of the French Parliament on same-sex marriage is due to take place on Tuesday and I feel a degree of relief that we are nearly done with the debates that have dragged on for over a year.

Can we agree to disagree?
The manner in which we disagree is so often dishonouring to Christ and is, therefore, an appalling witness to the world

From a 'frog' to the 'roast beefs': Chin up!
I am a French Christian but the secularism of my home country has never got me down

Death disorientated: what Thatcher's passing reveals about us
We as a nation have lost our way in handling death