Opinion

Darlene Zschech - In Spirit and Truth

Hey friends... well, life has been SO full, with mountaintop experiences AND valley moments, and all of it seems to be requiring me to keep refining my understanding about worship...

David Spriggs: Mission in the Media?

No one can miss it - the media are everywhere whether it's bill boards or TV ads, downloads or web site banners, broadsheets or red tops. What the media do affects us deeply, shapes our attitudes, compels our purchases and, moreover has a powerful influence on opinion formers and policy makers who in turn affect us in every aspect of our lives.

Robin Eames, Primate of all Ireland - Presidential Address at Armagh Diocesan Synod 2006

As I welcome you all to this meeting of our Synod I am of course deeply conscious it will be for the last time. On Sunday 31 December I will retire as Archbishop - a position and privilege I have held since 1986...

Interview: Gordon Showell Rogers, General Secretary EEA

The European Evangelical Alliance, an Alliance of 35 national Alliances and 12 Christian agencies, held its General Assembly in Warsaw, Poland, in partnership with the European Evangelical Missionary Alliance and the Hope for Europe Round Table, from Oct. 17-21, 2006.

Dr Nigel G. Wright: Hard and Soft Secularisms

You can learn a lot about the religious history of these islands from the built environment. From parish churches and cathedrals through to Nonconformist gothic and Gospel Halls it is all there. Yet one building tells a different story from most and intrigues me much.

Interview: Dr. Danuta HÃ¼bner, EU Commissioner for Poland

The 2006 EEA (European Evangelical Alliance) and EEMA (European Evangelical Missionary Alliance) General Assemblies opened in Warsaw, Poland on 17 October with an opening address by the Polish Commissioner at the European Union, Dr. Danuta HÃ¼bner...

World Vision's Child's Rights Advisor on Madonna and Inter-Country Adoption

World Vision's Child's Rights Advisor speaks to Christian Today on Madonna's planned adoption of a Malawian boy and the latest celebrity trend of adopting children from poor countries.

British Airways Cross Debacle - A Society Losing Its Identity?

The decision to restrict check-in worker Nadia Eweida from wearing her cross - a symbol representing her religious faith and devotion to Jesus Christ - British Airways, one of the largest carriers of air traffic in the world, has entangled itself in a religious debate that runs deeper that it would first seem.

Michael Wood, founder of Rope, on the Beacon Award, Faith and the Poor

Michael Wood is the founder and former CEO of Rope, an international Christian ministry that helps some of the world's most deprived people. He shared his reflections on winning the prestigious Beacon Special Prize as well as his faith and the work of Rope.

Interview: World Vision on Pakistan Quake One Year Later

One year after the 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Pakistan, some 60 per cent of the survivors are still displaced, according to a recent survey. Following a commemoration service in Pakistan on Sunday, John Schenk, World Vision International Pakistan communications manager...

Interview: WCC President Rev Dr Bernice Powell Jackson

Rev. Dr Bernice Powell Jackson is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ in the USA. A member of the World Council of Churches' (WCC) central committee since 1998, she has worked for more than three decades on civil rights, human rights and justice issues...