Opinion

Interview: Salvation Army's Newly Elected General-Elect, Commissioner Shaw Clifton

The Salvation Army has announced that its new International leader, and 18th General will be current UK leader, Commissioner Shaw Clifton.

Rev Malcolm Duncan: Time For a Change

I’ve just come across some startling research. Work done for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by the New Policy Institute shows that around 12 million people in the United Kingdom were living in poverty in 2003 / 2004...

Teaching the UK to Respect

The Government needs to understand what respect is before it can teach it to the growing generation of anti-socials in the UK...

Pastor Jonathan Oloyede: The Emerging Black Church

“Praise the Lord! Every body ppraaaaise the Lord!” bellowed the preacher from behind the glass pulpit. HALELUYAH! Resounded the congregation in perfect resonance...

Rev Rob Frost: A New Kind Of Evangelism

I was schooled in traditional ways of ‘doing evangelism.’ I was taught how to preach at a mega-decibel pitch in open air meetings, and how to use the wind to carry my voice! I was introduced to the subtle art of door to door witness...

Interview: World Relief Indonesia Director on Tsunami Recovery One Year Later

On Dec. 26, 2004, the world’s most powerful quake in four decades struck deep beneath the Indian Ocean off the coast of Indonesia...

Rev Steve Chalke: Chalke and Change - Enterprise Culture

In the late 1980’s, following the closure of coal pits, a rail manufacturing depot and various other local industries, North Doncaster found itself one of the most economically deprived communities...

Pastor Jonathan Oloyede: The Vision

As we enter 2006, Pastor Jonathan Oloyede speaks of a vision for the revival of Britain, saying that Britain is now ripe for the harvest, and that young people are the catalyst for change...

Christian Christmas Vs. Secular Winterval

"It's Christmas." "Oh no it's not, it's Winterval." With all the bandying to and fro between the anti-Christmas secularists and the Christian Christmas defenders, it is now time for a little clarification...

Christmas Message from Salvation Army's General Larsson: 'The Gift Beyond Words'

Are you behind with getting your Christmas cards sent off? If so, you will sympathise with the woman who rushed into the card shop just before Christmas, snapped up a packet of 50 identical cards...

Archbishop of Canterbury Releases Christmas Message

The Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual head of more than 70-million Anglicans worldwide, and head of the Church of England has released a Christmas statement. Even though the Archbishop has endured a tough year...

Dr. Barrett Duke on the Seoul Summit for North Korean Human Rights

The Seoul Summit on promoting North Korean Human Rights concluded Saturday with a prayer vigil that attracted more than 20,000 international human rights campaigners, Christian activists, politicians, defectors...

Christmas Message 2005 from the World Council of Churches General Secretary

It was in the midst of last year's Christmas season that the December 26th tsunami killed thousands of people on the shores of the Indian Ocean. Who can forget the images of the killer waves...

Dr. Meredith Long of World Relief Speaks on Stigma of HIV/AIDS

As World AIDS Day takes place, Dr. Meredith Long, director of International Health at World Relief, described some of the common trends in misunderstandings within the Christian community and how the churches are beginning...

World Leaders Entrusted with the Gift of Life

So this week Tony Blair has warned it will be a disaster if World Trade Organisation talks in Hong Kong next month fail to reach a deal on fair trade. With the time looming for the WTO to step forward and take some drastic action...

Interview: Canon Andrew White, Leading the FRME's Works in the Middle-East

Canon Andrew White is perhaps the most distinguished Christian working in the Middle-East, and works in close contact with the administrations of the US and UK governments. White has also been presented with the Cross of Valour...