Opinion

Haiti: cursed or blessed?

There is no doubt in my mind that the heart of God aches over the devastation that has befallen Haiti.

Making way for women bishops

The spotlight has moved to women bishops but the issue of how to make provisions for a minority which is unable to accept them continues to snag progress.

Did Jesus wear designer robes?

The growth of non-Western Christianity across Africa is largely due to the New Pentecostal Churches.

The dark side of chocolate

Chocolate companies use high quality ingredients including coercion, force, exploitation and violence to make annual profits of over $10 billion in the USA alone.

God’s perspective on the economy is different from ours

One budget doesn’t make a whole economy and God’s perspective of how the economy should run is very different from our perspective.

The climate will not wait and our children will suffer

Christian Aid director Daleep Makarji talks to Christian Today about why governments must act now on climate change.

What about the Christians who don't go to church?

According to an ongoing BBC/Open University survey, 57 per cent would return to church if they could. So what have they to say to us all?

World Vision UK's new Chief Executive Justin Byworth

If we can get the voices of children to speak more clearly to those in power then we believe that enormous things are possible.

A new tide in church planting

Martin Robinson, National Director of Together in Mission, was one of the key organisers of the recent church planting conference Mission21. He talks here about why he's hopeful for the future of church planting in the UK today.

Abortion figures and access to the truth

No-one would deny that abortion is an emotive issue, whichever side of the debate we may be on. But there is a key principle at stake here.

Whole gospel, whole church, whole world

Taking the gospel to the ends of the earth, in obedience to the Great Commission, is an inescapable imperative.

Praise in the midst of pain

Four months after the attacks on Christians in Gojra and Korian, the pain and sense of injustice over those horrific attacks are still etched on the faces of the Christians who live there.

O Britannia!

It’s one thing for the British government to eradicate every vestige of Christianity on the Scepter’d Isle. It’s another for it to demand that its territories do so as well.

Redefining Justice

By renewing civic society, we might well expect to find crime being dealt with more effectively.

Islam: A war within itself

Recent months have seen a number of unexpected and extremely encouraging statements coming out of the Muslim world.

Will you stand in the gap?

The Lord is looking for those who will lay down their own agendas and pick up His.