Opinion
Is your church too dependent on charitable status?
If your church model does depend (and I use that word advisedly) on charitable status, I'm going to suggest your church model is probably flawed.
There is big money to be made in the sale of Bible artefacts - and that's part of the problem
The problem with antique works of art and other objects is that the big money and the fame involved attract unsavoury elements.
In the midst of a funding crisis, special needs children are not to blame
Two recent articles in The Times have caused many parents a lot of hurt and upset - and that is putting it mildly.
LGBT lessons in schools: the Rev Lynda Rose on why more Christian parents need to take a stand
The Rev Lynda Rose, founder of Voice for Justice, on why she wants to see Christian parents taking a bolder stand against the Government's LGBT agenda and the teaching of values that contradict their core religious beliefs.
Paula White's new book 'Something Greater' is revealing, disturbing and depressing
The new book from Donald Trump's spiritual adviser demonstrates why so much of the US evangelical church is in deep trouble.
Moby-Dick is still essential reading in today's godless age
Herman Melville's classic is a fascinating and challenging exploration of the G-d who is so elusive, the G-d who works in mysterious, unfathomable ways.
Abortion law change will remove vital protections against coercive abortions
Unless an Executive is reformed in Northern Ireland on Monday 21 October 2019, vital protections will be removed from women protecting them from coercive abortions - protections which women in England will continue to enjoy.
Black children are the least likely to be adopted: this needs to change
There is something the Church can do to resolve the heartbreaking problem of black boys languishing on the adoption waiting list.
Three questions church leaders need to ask before saying yes to a short-term mission trip
Any visit to an exotic location will have some element of adventure and sight-seeing, but if that appears to be the primary purpose, then I'd suggest that you don't support the person.
Every Christian is a saint, faults and all
We may not make the national news, but God sees every Christian as a saint.
Four women and a Brit: the Catholic Church's newest saints
While the focus of the weekend's canonisations was understandably on Cardinal John Henry Newman, four women were also made saints.
All hail the new sexual and gender ideology
While secular society has effectively abolished any concept of 'taking the Lord's name in vain', or blasphemy against God, it has replaced it with a secular equivalent: speaking against the now sacred name of contemporary sexual and gender ideology.
The day my wife was arrested
Yes, my wife and I could both write letters to our politicians (we have done). But when our prime minister is someone who mocks climate protesters as "uncooperative crusties", and at the same time promises to loosen some of our environmental legislation once we leave the EU, in order to satisfy US trading terms, I'm not sure that just writing letters is dramatic enough.
Exorcism and the law: faith groups need robust procedures to protect children
Exorcism-related child abuse is child abuse, plain and simple.
Millions are suffering needlessly from treatable conditions because they can't afford the healthcare we take for granted
When my wife went into labour two months early, she received the care she needed in hospital free of charge and today we have two beautiful twin boys. But around the world, millions are not so lucky and they are suffering, often for their entire life, because of it.
Emotional women, rational men: why I'm coming out as binary
At the risk of being labelled a transphobic bigot, I might just revert to the Bible's crazy idea that there is such thing as male and female
