Most people today have a visual image of Christ. Long haired and bearded, simply dressed in homespun cloth, portrayed with varying degrees of Middle Eastern appearance (sometimes not), often with an intense gaze. These images have a back-story and historic portrayals have settled on this iconic image.
We have a biblical mandate to love our neighbour, and this transcends national borders.
Against the gloomy background of failures, scandals and resignations, thousands of Church of England churches, and many thousands more of other denominations, are working hard at the grassroots.
Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on Jordan Peterson's new book and the story of Jacob and Esau.
The next Archbishop of Canterbury after Justin Welby inherits a national Church in numerical meltdown and groaning under a bureaucratic burden.
The path towards assisted suicide has been long in the making, when we forgot our obligations to the community and to God, and prioritised our own desires. This is the result.
No one wishes to deny or downplay the reality of suffering, and there is nothing more heart-breaking than watching someone you love when they are in pain, but there is a world of difference between doing all you can to alleviate that pain, and designedly giving 'treatment' to bring about death.
Many people, including many Christians, find the idea of eternal damnation difficult to accept.
This new law would not be a mild change to the law, enabling a compassionate approach to a few suffering people who need it. This would be a fundamental change in society, written into law.
Complaining that some people oppose assisted suicide for 'religious reasons' gets it precisely backwards.
Despite the good news that Essex Police have dropped their Stasi-like investigation into Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson, orthodox Christians should still expect trouble from the woke police.
Christian Today speaks to Sonya Pascoe, bereavement trainer at Care for the Family, about the organisation's new book The Grief Journey and how churches can support people who have lost a loved one.
Despite claiming there is no absolute truth, many postmodern beliefs are selling their own version of 'truth', and seem just as keen to impose their own 'truth' onto others as other worldviews ever did.
