Opinion

Are Britain's churches sending missionaries to the wrong places?

If the world has changed, there is one thing that doesn't seem to have changed quite so much and that's where the British send missionaries.

If India's Prime Minister Modi wants economic reform, he must first address the Dalit plight

Dr. Joseph D'Souza, president of the All India Christian Council, on why India's Prime Minister must instigate social reform.

Why we need solitude in the midst of the 2016 American election

Can we disconnect from the noise to immerse ourselves in the quiet presence of God?

Responding to the face of horror

It's easy to feel overwhelmingly powerless in the face of the Syrian crisis. Madeleine Davies offers five ways we can respond.

We must go to war on Climate Change - failing to do so is appeasement

We stand on the precipice of another disaster. And yet, like Europeans in the 1930s going about our lives as if nothing was under threat, we ignore the existential crisis that is before us.

Can Joe Biden calm the religious and political storm in the Balkans?

Biden, a devout Catholic, is this week going to Kosovo and then Serbia, and he will find that in the Western Balkans religious politics are as passionate and important as anywhere in the world.

Scott Lively: Why he's wrong about absolutely everything

Scott Lively isn't everyone's cup of tea. The conservative anti-gay activist is facing a lawsuit for his support of Uganda's draconian anti-homosexual legislation and regularly ruffles feathers because of his fairly extreme positions.

Why it's time to stop saying 'God won't give you more than you can handle'

Let's call out vacuous dispensing of inaccurate self-help.

Why banning the burqa is un-British âÂ oh, and un-Christian too

Should Britain ban the burqa? Are we really still asking that question?

What to do when God sends your black daughter a white husband

How male headship undermines our freedom in Christ

If you've grown up in a conservative Christian home, especially in America, there's a good chance that you were told that the man has the primary calling in the family.

Guns and church: Why, in spite of everything, they don't mix

Anyone who comments on affairs on the other side of the Atlantic â in either direction â needs to do with considerable humility.

The hidden factor behind modern massacres (and it's not Islam)

Talk of a religious war is misguided. Almost all recent terrorist attacks have been committed by individuals using mind-altering drugs

A Woman's Place review: Katelyn Beaty cuts through the destructive narratives about working women

In A Woman's Place, Katelyn Beaty calls for us to embrace work outside the home as something that's amazing, fruitful and can bring glory to God.

The former Goddard inquiry: Is it time for victims to trust the system again?

The Goddard inquiry into institutional child abuse, as we must get used to not calling it any more, has been beset by problems since it first started.

Extreme fasting: How trying to do what Jesus did could literally kill you

Ndlovu, 44, died not because he couldn't get enough food to eat but because he believed he was following in the footsteps of Jesus.