David Baker

• 

  Keeping Sunday Special: does it still matter?

  Let's enjoy – with delight – Sabbath peace and worship

• 

  Hunger in a land of plenty: Britain's food scandal

  The gospel is always socially transformative

• 

  Christ-like capitalism? God, mammon and the Church of England

  A Christian approach to economics will want to explore the possibility of financial systems being redeemed under the rule of Christ – and of money being used properly rather than improperly.

• 

  The BBC and Christians: speak now!

  Sometimes we watch or listen to the BBC's news coverage of Christians and the Christian faith and we groan inwardly

• Why I love Richard Dawkins

  despite his disappointing ignorance about matters of religion ...

• One sinking ship being lashed to another? Methodist-Anglican unity

  When the New Testament calls Christians to unity, is the ideal in mind really that we should all get together in one huge, homogeneous organisation – as some seem to think?

• Syria: Blessed are the peacemakers

  There is no obviously "right" side in this fight – only a battle of conflicting wrongs and evils

• Retribution or restitution? The dilemma of life sentences

  For the follower of Christ, punishment is never simply retribution.

• Revolution? Bring it on!

  We are living in a time of revolutions – both abroad and at home – according to Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

• 

  Embryos: two parents good, three parents bad?

  Designer children are on the way – at least if we are to believe some of the headlines in the press.

• Why we shouldn't send arms to Syria

  The conflict in Syria is a very different one from that of the First World War, the centenary of which is now just a few months away.

• Deceivers and the deceived: the ethics of journalistic entrapment

  As another Parliamentary scandal sinks into the public consciousness, the over-riding impression we are left with once again is of corrupt, untrustworthy MPs and Lords with their snouts in the trough.