Opinion
For people with disability in developing countries, coronavirus threatens even more hardship
There are fears that the impact on developing countries with few resources and little in the way of healthcare or welfare will be devastating, and for those living with disability, even more so.
The coronavirus crisis is cloaking a most diabolical plan
As our country continues in lockdown, the euthanasia lobby is working busily to change the law on assisted suicide on the island of Jersey. If it succeeds, the resulting contagion would prove more deadly to the vulnerable on that Island than coronavirus ever will. And it won't stop with Jersey.
The four horsemen of the Covid apocalypse
When the world is facing a deadly plague which is often conveyed in such apocalyptic terms, it seems unnecessary to add yet another article to the plethora of doomsday writings flooding our screens. But now that we are several weeks into the Covid 19 pandemic perhaps there are some general patterns we can discern and warnings we can heed.
Seriously, are you ready to die?
The best time to prepare for our death is now â and indeed every day.
What does a Christ-like response to coronavirus look like?
If we want to follow Jesus' example, we must consider it worth all the inconvenience of altering our lifestyles, even if our actions only keep one person alive who would otherwise have died.
In care homes across the country, older people are actively supporting their communities through this coronavirus crisis
Whether it's through painting rainbows, candles and crosses for their windows, taking part in our new Thursday night ritual of clapping for our carers, or holding us up in prayer, they are making their mark on our nation.
The plague that changed a civilisation
At its peak, 5,000 people died in Rome during the Plague of Cyprian every day.
Surely now is the time for another National Day of Prayer?
In Britain's darkest hour during World War II, a godly king called this nation to a day of prayer, and then the miracle of Dunkirk unfolded before the nation's eyes.
The withdrawal of a grotesque sex education programme shows the difference Christian public witness still makes
If only our church leaders would speak up too.
We all miss our churches, but closing them for now is the sensible thing to do
We naturally struggle when we can't visit those familiar places where we have encountered God in the past.
Covid-19: Lessons from the Book of Job
There will be accusers at times like this and many will ask what seem to be perfectly reasonable questions â like 'how could a good, just God allow such a plague to be unleashed on innocent people?'
What does Easter mean?
The important and unmissable part of the Easter story is that it is not merely about humanity in general; it is about you in particular.
Songs, spiritual and secular, to contemplate this Easter
If you miss singing with the Lord's people this Easter, like I do, let the power of music speak into your self-isolation.
Society has long prized youth and youthfulness but there is no age limit to the redeeming love of Jesus
It's a challenge to us when we are confronted by the big choices we have to make about how best to allocate severely limited resources, to choose to see value in older people as well as younger people.
Every life matters but in a pandemic, do some lives matter more?
In a world where we are learning more about how intensive care units work, about types of ventilators and other treatments for people whose Covid-19 symptoms are worsening, disabled people are worried.
What a new Netflix drama teaches us about life in North Korea
The impossible love between a northerner and the southerner, from different worlds and kept apart by arbitrary forces beyond their control, mirrors the bitter narrative of the two Koreas which has spanned more than 70 years.