Opinion
Do traditionalist Catholics really want the Pope dead?
Far from wanting him dead, it is more likely that faithful Catholics are praying for their Pope to become as alive in prophetic discernment as he is tender in compassion.
With a conversion therapy ban on the table, the threat of jail for Christians is real
Several years ago, I wrote that I could foresee the time when I would go to jail for simply preaching and practising Christianity. That time is almost here.
Lessons from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in dark times
The great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer learnt from experience how Christians should live in dark times.
African Christians in the UK: a 'new movement of post-colonial missionaries'
Theologian and missiologist Dr Harvey Kwiyani speaks to Christian Today about a new Master's programme from Church Mission Society aimed at equipping African Christians for mission in the diaspora.
Blatantly violating the First Amendment
In some cases, like Lorie Smith's, courts are not only ignoring conscience rights, they are actively undermining it.
On the value of biblical interpretation
It's not so much about a straightforward formulae of prohibition as it is about clear principles.
When a whole-life sentence just isn't enough
There's a lot the government should be doing about violence against women. But it's going to need each of us and the Church to play it's part too.
The Church should be at the forefront of a passionate opposition to assisted suicide
There are two possibilities to legalising assisted suicide which are clearly foreseeable and which on their own ought to cause the most serious hesitations.
The truth about abortion and what 'pro-choicers' don't want women to hear
A heartbreaking new book has laid bare all the pain, grief and trauma that so many women experience after an abortion - a reality that 'pro-choicers' want to deny.
Keir Starmer's gnosticism
The marginalisation and exploitation of women continues apace â aided and abetted by intellectuals who don't think, and politicians who don't understand where their virtue signalling in support of the latest progressive cause will lead.
Mission is for all Christians, not just the 'called'
In the Church the prevailing spiritual atmosphere is that 'mission' is for specific people that are 'called' and in the Western world, the spiritual atmosphere is one of hostility to the gospel. These things need to change.
Why do we care so much about being attractive?
All of us, whether stunningly beautiful or not, feel pressure to look attractive.
Gafcon and women bishops: just a tiff or a real rift?
There appears to be fresh difficulty brewing over the consecration of women as bishops in some parts of Gafcon
What can Harry Potter teach Christian preachers?
Just eight miles separate two very different places of pilgrimage in Hertfordshire, north of London, where I serve as a Christian priest. One is St Albans Abbey. The other is the Harry Potter studios, where the eight blockbuster films were made. Both declare the power of 'the story' â but which, I wonder, resonates more with our 21st century culture?
As ageism in society increases, we as Christians need to re-discover the value of being older
As Christians, we are often guilty of not valuing and plumbing the depths of the older saints around us. We don't call on their wisdom or lean on their prayer enough and perhaps if we did that more, our attitudes towards ageing would begin to shift.
A new Channel 4 documentary offers some worrying insights into people's attitudes to sex today
Sex Actually, a new series on Channel 4, claims to explore what sex really means to people these days by following couples who livestream themselves in the act for money. But not so long ago, society had a word to describe this sort of behaviour â¼ prostitution.