David Baker

• Sunday farce hour?

  Not even the blitzkrieg of Nazi bombs on London was able to stop Sunday Half Hour

• Jesus, the bishops and civil partnerships

  It would be a very substantial change indeed firstly to reinterpret all the negative Scriptural references to homosexual practice

• If Terry Waite can forgive Hezbollah, can Anglicans forgive each other?

  Is it too much to ask that bickering and embittered Anglicans might be enabled to reach out to one another over the issue of women bishops

• The Queen speaks – does Britain hear?

  It is tragic that so much of the media seems to be 'ever hearing but never understanding'

• Christmas: God speaking human

  God was so keen to communicate with us that he came to us directly in person

• A Royal Baby: five reasons to rejoice and pray!

  We should pray because we are commanded to

• Leveson Report: how might Christians respond?

  Lord Leveson's suggestions are consistent with the Christian concept of government stepping in to act as a check on bad behaviour

• The monster devours itself: reflections on the maelstrom at the BBC

  The hectoring tone of some news interviews should certainly cause us concern

• What are cathedrals here for?

  It seems to me that God is constantly in the business of communicating, of clarifying, of interpreting

• First class travel and the Christian difference

  But when MPs travel in a way that is beyond the means of most ordinary voters, damaging perceptions can be reinforced