Opinion

Now the dust has settled

When we look at the tragic events of 9/11 we cannot avoid recognising that the West played a part in sowing the seed of that terrible day

Nadine Dorries and why her abortion proposals failed

Christian campaign groups relied too heavily on an MP who is notoriously unreliable in her willingness to trust others

The Scottish Government should not redefine marriage

If marriage can be redefined for homosexual marriage, why not redefine it to allow polygamy?

Why men hate going to church

There is something about church that puts men off

Political identity in the abortion debates

Nadine Dorries' amendment will improve the choice women have in relation to abortion

Let your yes be yes and no, no

When a Christian campaign group accuses somebody of saying something which they did not say our good news is discredited

Exam results and why children shouldn’t be given money to learn

If children are paid to learn, they will grow to regard it as a chore to be done solely in order to get a reward

Somalia is this decade’s outcast

We must not allow Somalia to become the new breeding ground for terrorism

The Christian case for capital punishment

There is sound ‘image of God’ theology about the dignity of human accountability

Engaging with those on the margins

It's time to move beyond the blame game

The church must fill the moral vacuum

The government, the media, the police and financial institutions have been discredited by their own misdemeanours

Will the obvious lessons of the riots be learned?

Anarchy reigns in a society that does not understand the virtue of discipline

Riots and God

These terrible events have simply strengthened my own belief that Britain desperately needs to go back to the Maker's instructions, the Ten Commandments

Offering love: the church after the riots

Behind the opportunists who joined in the disturbances there is the reality of a criminal gang culture

Riots and social relations

People have been shocked by scenes of wanton destruction and criminality on the streets of London and other cities in England in the last week. Secretary for Minority Ethnic Christian Affairs at Churches Together in England, Bishop Dr Joe Aldred, shares his thoughts on the violence.

Our lawless society

Two or three generations have grown up in a blame culture where every problem has to be anyone else’s fault except their own