David Baker

• Can we avoid Holy Week hypocrisy?

  Last week I found myself doing exactly the sort of thing I decry in others, and which seems to me to go against the gospel Jesus taught – and which I claim to preach – in so many ways.

• You can transform the world through love: here's how

  The teaching of Jesus about love makes a transformative difference, both to individuals and society.

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  Philip North and Jeffrey John: A Church that is more 'via muddle' than 'via media'

  The Church of England and Church in Wales need to decide what they believe. It has become easier to appoint people who are slightly less clear on contentious issues, appeasers of different views, rather than teachers of truth – for in today's Anglicanism, it turns out the truth is unclear.

• Fake news and Good News: how Jesus helps us tell the difference

  In many walks of life, getting the genuine article is important – and no more so than when it comes to matters of God and faith.

• 4 Ways To 'Render Unto Caesar' In The Trump-Brexit Era

  Wherever we stand on various issues we find much that unsettles us in civil society. Most people feel they want to say something – but struggle to know how.

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  Memo To Bewildered Bishops - Please Be Shepherds, Not Sheep

  Is it time for the bishops to remember how to lead their flock? After all, what are they supposed to be there for?

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  Is Jesus Your Essential Building Block? Or Is He Your Stumbling Block?

  Jesus can either be the essential building block on which we construct our lives – or he will be a spiritual stumbling block over which we fall.

• 'What Do You Mean By Crushing My People?' 7 Tests Of Spiritual Fruitfulness

  ARE YOU a fruitful – or fruitless – Christian? What matters ultimately, of course, is God's opinion – but how can we know what he thinks?

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  3 Ways Jesus Challenges Authority

  No-one likes having their authority subverted. Yet Jesus does this all the time. David Baker looks at what this means.

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  8 Vital Truths About Forgiveness

  Forgiveness is commanded by Jesus. But what does it actually look like?

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  5 Ways To Make Your Prayer Life More Pleasing To God

  How can we "move mountains" through prayer as Jesus said?

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  Why I Can't Get This Photo Out Of My Mind

  There are some pictures that, once seen, can never be forgotten. This grainy image of desperation and hope, by freelance photographer Warren Richardson, is one of them.