Cheerfulness may be a virtue but there is a widespread suspicion about it because modern culture automatically assumes cheerfulness to be shallow. Unfortunately it's not hard to find a parallel perspective within Christianity
Lent is never celebrated but only 'kept' and is not so much marked by what we do but what we don't do: it's the season of giving things up.
Many of us have lives in which there is simply too much going on and which we don't manage in the best way.
We seem increasingly to be living in 'interesting times' where our society is torn by division, instability and polarisation.
As homelessness is on the rise throughout the UK, J John offers three gifts you can give people on the streets this Christmas
Released this month in the UK, The Case for Christ movie follows Lee Strobel's long search for the truth about Jesus. Evangelist J.John asks, 'does the film make an effective case for Christ?'
As someone who is both Greek and a Christian, this action by Lidl to erase the cross from a Greek Orthodox church on food products amazes and annoys me.
If virtues are not constantly reinforced, vices will take over. And in the fervour of electioneering it seems to me that these three particular virtues are so threatened that their defence is essential.
You might be surprised at the value of the things that you leave behind
Even the most resolute atheist must surely be troubled at the growing trend for ever-more-gruesome masks and costumes
