Opinion

Orlando shootings: There's only one answer to people who peddle hate
People who fill their supporters' hearts with hatred in the name of a perverted faith that's come completely adrift from its religious moorings have turned to the spiritual dark side.

Owen Jones: Right about homophobia, wrong about religion
Last night Owen Jones stormed off the press preview when his fellow reviewers would not admit the Orlando attack was primarily homophobic.

Orlando shooting: why Christians must not stay quiet
Orlando shooting: why Christians must not stay quiet

Was Hitler really a Christian?
The new fundamentalist atheists have adopted 'Hitler was a Christian' as one of their memes. So how do we answer this one?

Why human rights and Christian faith aren't always compatible
The difference lies in how the mutual goal of human flourishing is thought to be attained. While liberalism advocates for the absolute right of personal choice, a Christian approach has quite a different starting point.

Voting in a post-truth referendum
The open fabrication of statistics, the invention of events and the evocation of non-existent enemies is a worrying innovation in our public life, says Charlie Parker.

Is it time to stop talking about the 'feminisation of the church'?
Hannah Mudge asks whether it's time to stop talking about the 'feminisation of the church'?

The sin of not voting â and why so many people commit it
We all know we should do it, so why don't we? Martin Saunders on voter apathy.
Is the government's anti-extremism strategy targeting college Christian Unions?
A Christian Union was barred from holding prayer and Bible study meetings as a result of the government's anti-extremism strategy.

Why is the EU referendum debate so dull? Too many men
There is compelling case both from a point of principle and from a point of pragmatic campaigning to involve more women in the EU debate.

The asylum system's religious illiteracy is putting Christians at risk
The genuineness of a person's conversion cannot be judged by whether they can reel off answers to questions they could have learned from Wikipedia.

Westboro Baptist, the KKK, Kim Davis: How do you judge who's a genuine Christian?
Is Kim Davies a Christian? She proclaims Jesus as her Lord but does not believe in the Trinity. So does that count?

Christian paedophile Richard Huckle: why the whole Church must respond
British paedophile Richard Huckle is facing life imprisonment for a hideous catalogue of sexual abuse, his victims all children and young people.

Why banning hijabs at work sets a dangerous precedent for religious liberty
An EU judge has said that a Belgian security company is within its rights to forbid a Muslim woman from wearing a hijab at work.

When secularism becomes sacred: The attack on free speech and why it's dangerous for Christians
Christians need to be very vigilant in standing up for free speech, for our own sakes.

A Tale of Two Assemblies: The future of the Church in Scotland
David Robertson looks at the present and the future of the Church in Scotland and sees signs of hope amid decline...