Opinion
Music: Get Gospel This Year
You hear it, you feel it, and it can make your day. You grab a cup of coffee, swing around the room, and the next minute you know, you grab a broomstick and you're dancing.
Anglican Head Dr Rowan Williams: New Year 2007 Message
Here in this London shopping centre - as in towns across the UK - the January sales are well underway - after a Christmas when many of us probably spent more than we should and eaten more than we should. It's all in stark contrast to Sudan where I visited last February.
Interview: Christian Scientist on Global Warming
Dr. Hugh Ross, founder / president of the ministry Reasons to Believe, based in the US, is an astronomer-turned-apologist specialising in Bible-science issues. Dr. Ross spoke to our Christian Today correspondent last week...
David Spriggs: Christmas Angels Help to Get the Message Across!
Angels have been making a come back in an attempt to get the Christmas message going again. Luke Walton, the Arts officer for Bible Society, was inspired as he walked through Swindon Town's shopping centre.
Andy Flannagan: HIDE and SEEK
Artists and performers are inevitably the worst in the world at practising the art of "being hidden". The very lifeblood to our work is often publicity and marketing, which is not in itself wrong, but the battle for control of our hearts and motives in this context becomes increasingly violent.
Interview: Graham Kendrick - Out of the Ordinary
Meet Graham Kendrick, the maker of internationally renowned songs like "All I Once Held Dear" and "Shine Jesus Shine", as he talks about his latest project Out of the Ordinary.
Rev David Coffey Shares His Feelings Ahead of Pilgrimage to Bethlehem
The Moderator of the Free Churches and President of the Baptist World Alliance, the Rev David Coffey, has shared his thoughts with Christian Today on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land this Christmas.
Territorial Commander of The Salvation Army in UK on His Hopes for 2007
Christian Today speaks to Commissioner John Matear, Territorial Commander of The Salvation Army in the UK, on his hopes for 2007.
Interview: Kay Warren - In the Front Line Fighting AIDS
Kay Warren, wife of megapastor and bestselling author Rick Warren, isn't the typical pastor's wife. Coming out of years of traditional pastor's wife work at Saddleback Church, home to some 21,000 attendants each weekend, Warren now finds herself at the forefront of a major evangelical push to fight AIDS and assist those affected, even if it means putting her own life on the line. And she's putting it in writing.
Rev Malcolm Duncan: Building a Better World - Part 3
The Leader of the Faithworks Movement, Revd Malcolm Duncan, has just published his first book, Building a Better World . In this, the third of a series of extracts and thoughts from the book, he explores just what it is in the Christian faith that spurs us on to build a better world...
General Shaw Clifton Christmas Message: Words & Songs to Greet the Saviour
The opening chapters of the Gospel of Luke hold the divinely inspired record of words and songs that preceded and greeted the glorious birth of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Today these words and songs still lift our hearts, as we celebrate Christmas again.
David Spriggs: Theos - A New Word on the Street
For Christians who know only a smattering of Greek, Theos is likely to be one of those words, it means God. So why are all kinds of newspapers suddenly writing about Theos?
Interview: Compassion Head on Western Church and AIDS
While churchgoers have sat comfortably in the pews, Compassion International has extended relief and care to hundreds of thousands of poverty-stricken and HIV-infected children around the world.
There is No Christmas without Christ
It's that time of year again, the time when Christians just want to celebrate Christmas in peace. But the days of the peaceful Christmas could be numbered if secularists and atheists have their way. What can we as Christians do to make sure that doesn't happen?
Dr. James M. Stevens: A Heart-warming Christmas Story
Back when I was studying music at Samford University in Birmingham, AL, I had the privilege of working as a music minister at some small churches in rural areas. It was a great training ground to work with choirs of limited resources and I met some of the most wonderful Christian people.
Bishop of Lichfield, Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill: Christmas Message 2006
I enjoyed the switching on of the Christmas lights in Stafford market place this year. It must be the child in me but the sparkling coloured lights and the smell of roasting chestnuts stirs up a sense of wonder and delight.