Opinion
Christian Today Interviews UK’s Top Youth Ministry Leaders at Youthwork 2005
Thousands of Christian youth leaders gathered to be re-inspired and re-energised by the Youthwork Conferences in Southport and Eastbourne over the past two weekends. Christian Today was able to interview a number of the leaders...
Interview: Kay Warren on Saddleback's New HIV/AIDS Conference
Kay Warren, wife and co-minister with Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, is heading up the church’s new HIV/AIDS Conference from Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 in California, USA. She is convinced God and those suffering with HIV/AIDS are calling for action from the church...
Interview: Rev Steve Hollinghurst, Church Army’s Researcher in Evangelism to Post-Christian Culture
A new tour by the Group for Evangelisation, a coordinating group of Churches Together in England, has revealed how despite the continuous reporting of Church decline and falling numbers in church congregations...
Interview with Dr Kancha Ilaiah - Leading Dalit Rights Campaigner in India
Dr Kancha Ilaiah, a leading campaigner for Dalit rights in India, has been on a visit to the UK this week. Dr Ilaiah is Professor in Political Science at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, and the author of a number of books on caste oppression in India.
Interview: Jeff Lucas on Intelligent Church
Christian organisation Faithworks held its annual conference last weekend, 4–6 November, in Eastbourne under the motto ‘iChurch: Intelligent Church in the 21st Century’. We asked Jeff Lucas, for his views...
Joni Eareckson Tada Speaks to Christian Today on Euthanasia
Top medical professionals last month joined with leading US disability rights advocate Joni Eareckson Tada at a special seminar by Christian social concern charity CARE to reject the proposed Assisted Dying Bill...
Interview - World Vision Asia/Pacific VP on N. Korea Ultimatum
North Korea recently made a public call for all foreign humanitarian aid organisations to leave the country by the end of the year. Pyongyang’s announcement has caused discussion amongst NGOs...
Interview: Steve Legg of Breakout Trust - New Christian Animation "It’s a Boy"
Steve Legg, founding director of the Breakout Trust speaks out on what compelled him to make new animation film ‘It’s a Boy’ and send it to every primary school in the country...
Interview: Rev Nicky Gumbel, Alpha Course Chaplain
Holy Trinity Brompton, home to the Alpha Course hosted a Prayer for London event last week. Christian Today managed to speak with Rev Nicky Gumbel about the event, the spiritual state of London and the Alpha Course...
Interview with New Evangelical Alliance Executive Director Mike Morris
This week the Evangelical Alliance UK (EAUK) has made a number of changes in its leadership in a structural change aimed at progressing its vision and renewing its commitment to be a voice for evangelical Christians...
Religious Hatred Bill to Bring Peace in Britain?
Thousands of Christians gathered outside the British Parliament last week, crying out against the proposed Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. Under the shadow of the London underground bombings which has highlighted to the public extremism...
London Attacks - Finding God in the Midst of Disaster
When disaster strikes it easy to blame God and difficult to understand why He would allow such a tragedy. But the suffering needn't end with suffering. Indeed it might just show us the way to unity and peace between man...
Harry Potter – Educational Genius or Corrupting the Spirit?
With the hype surrounding the latest release in the Harry Potter books, once again the debate regarding the ethical values and spiritual indications of the book have once again been raised. Questions have been raised by a number of Christians and in particular...
How to Get the Punters in the Pews
Can anything halt the numerical decline going on presently in most mainline Christian denominations? Whenever this question is asked, one obvious clue to an answer seems to get missed. It is a fact that in every part of the country, there are churches that are cheerfully bucking the trend ...
Engineering Disabled Embryos: the Race to be First
How should Christians react to this bioindustrial use of human embryos? Those who have read David Jones’ absorbing new book The Soul of the Embryo will be aware of the complex history of Christian thought on ensoulment. The earliest strand of Christian tradition made no distinction between early and late abortion ...
A Forward Look at Mission
Whether the Church of England remains the ‘established’ Church of the land or not – and some doubt it -- it must continue to have a concern for the people among whom it is placed, and its mission to the nation as a whole must remain a top priority. But what exactly is that mission?