Opinion
This World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Christians must act
As the Covid-19 pandemic has swept across the globe, what has fallen into step behind it is an increase in violence and exploitation of people in poverty.
John Lennon's hopeless humanist hymn, "Imagine", is the wrong song for the Olympics
After yet another Olympic appearance, it seems as though "Imagine" has become the secular humanist hymn for our times, the godless prayer that must be uttered on any occasion â sometimes even by Christian clergy.
If assisting self-harm is not OK, then why are we thinking about legalising assisted suicide?
The Law Commission has announced proposals for a new crime of intentionally encouraging or assisting serious self-harm at the very time when Parliament is considering legalising assisted suicide.
A conspiracy of corruption that allowed abuse to continue unchecked
For years now, the reports of child sex abuse have been too frequent and widespread â too endemic â to ignore. Yet those in authority, charged with dealing with them, appear wilfully to have ignored the evidence.
The strange decline of US evangelicalism
What seemed to be the unstoppable rise of evangelicalism, and the terminal decline of 'mainline' Protestant churches, has flipped.
Why the fuss about Latin Mass?
Everyone knows that faith in general and Christianity in particular faces the most serious of crises at the beginning of the 21st century. The argument about the Latin Mass also represents two very different diagnoses of what the problem is, and what the solution might or ought to be.
Would Jesus wear a mask?
In the good old days, churches used to split over issues like wearing hats, speaking in tongues, or having guitars in worship. Today we fight over wearing masks.
1 million hours of prayer for the Tokyo Olympics
As all eyes turn to Tokyo for the Olympics and Paralympics, Japanese Christians are inviting the global Church to unite for one million hours of prayer for the spiritual transformation of their nation.
Apologists for Cuba's Communists
We should pray for the Cuban people to be free one day. Hopefully sooner than later.
The incredible incoherence of Ben & Jerry's latest policy
As a lover of God and a lover of justice, I, too, want to see the fair and equal treatment of the Palestinians along with the safety and thriving of the Jewish state of Israel. That's why I so reject the incoherent and hypocritical policy decision of Ben & Jerry's.
Shakespeare: a patriarchal, heteronormative, white supremacist?
Apparently British history has to be rewritten, and our artistic heritage erased, because of its 'white male, cisgendered, supremacist domination'. But this is nothing but an attack on our Christian heritage and who we are, and the naked attempt by an opposing ideology to assert dominance.
Is cultural engagement even necessary to the Christian life?
What does it mean when we call Christians to engage the culture?
Children need more support rather than a return to 'normal'
For the children and young people that have lived through Covid, to throw them back into 'normal' would be like taking the stabilisers off their bike without teaching them to ride. Unfair and dangerous.
In a dangerous world, Christians are called to support the media
A series of sad, stark messages posted on Twitter last week by St Bride's Church, London, highlight the dangers facing journalists around the world.
How England (and the whole UK) can avoid scoring a massive own goal
After those missed penalties last week and all the soul searching that followed since then, we need to tell ourselves some better stories about who we are as a nation, argues Thomas Garvey.
Missing millions - how abortion is harming us all
A new book published this week by Voice for Justice UK examines the alarming, but overlooked, effects of sixty years 'choice' on society.