David Baker

• A two-word argument against 'transgender liturgy'

  After all, shouldn't churches welcome transgender people? Didn't Jesus come for everyone – especially those often marginalised or discriminated against?

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  Transgender tragi-comedy: the House of Bishops' Christmas cracker

  When I was training to be a vicar at theological college, a group of friends and I decided to have a bit of a laugh one year by writing a spoof liturgy.

• Brexit: Can we think outside the box?

  Like the surreal and almost psychedelic Christmas pantomime I see locally with my family each year, Brexit seems to have entered fresh flights of absurdity.

• Four apps to turbo-charge your spiritual life

  But phone time doesn't have to be unhealthy time. In fact, there are some brilliant apps out there which can be a real help to anyone serious about their Christian faith.

• Brexit Britain: What is God saying to the UK?

  Is God speaking clearly to Britain as it grapples with ongoing divisions and warnings of potential catastrophe in the run-up to leaving the European Union?

• From sea to stinking sea? America's verbal cesspool

  'O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain...' So begins one of the best loved patriotic songs in the United States, 'America the beautiful'.

• EXCLUSIVE: Evangelical bishops offer olive branch to GAFCON

  Evangelical bishops in the Church of England have offered a hand of friendship to GAFCON – the international Anglican grouping emerging as a potential future alternative to the Anglican Communion.

• EXCLUSIVE: Evangelical bishops issue blunt warning to Church of England on sexuality

  Anglican evangelical bishops have warned of 'major problems' and the danger of division if the Church of England changes its stance on sexuality.

• Kavanaugh and Ford: An American tragedy

  The problem with nuclear war is that there are no winners. And that, in a nutshell, is what American legislators are now discovering.

• The unfolding Anglican earthquake: a way through?

  Can Anglicans ever compromise on the vexed issue of sexuality? And if not, is there now a possible way forward?

• English bishops: a quiet and unnoticed scandal

  There has been much thankfulness among many Anglican evangelicals about the church's newest bishop.

• Frank Field: a canary in Labour's coalmine

  Like the canaries miners once carried underground as an early warning sign for dangerous gases, the resignation of Frank Field from the Labour whip is an urgent alarm call.