David Robertson

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  There's an important difference between being Islamophobic and Islamocritical

  The Scottish Parliament has never been slow to signal its own virtue as regards 'progressive' causes, of which Islam is apparently now one

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  The difference between seeing the stranger and being the stranger

  It's easy for well off people to decry this but surely we can understand why someone would want to provide their family with a better life?

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  Demons and principalities: my problem with Paula White's prayer for the President

  Having reflected and 'tested the spirits', let me put this quite simply. This prayer and the whole alignment of Trump as the Messiah (the Anointed) is a shameful and embarrassing episode in the American church's history.

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  The religious thought police are here

  We are becoming an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian society, where even the slightest deviation from the New Orthodoxy means you face an 'investigation'. The media are far too often the unthinking and unwitting parrots of this new State doctrine.

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  The Lost Message of Chalke

  In 'The Lost Message of Paul', Steve Chalke argues that 'all the old narratives are dead' and that we need a 'new story'. But his new story suffers from some major defects.

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  As Boris Johnson is summoned to court, we should all be worried

  When you have one rule for the rich and another for the poor, it's not justice.

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  Go West: is the American Church the answer to the UK Church's problems?

  We need to consider how much the UK church is influenced by the US – and how much of that influence is a good or bad thing.

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  What's to hate about hate speech?

  Christians are the new revolutionaries in our post-truth 'hate-speech' society.

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  The end is nigh: what extinction has to do with our evangelism

  We must not allow our eschatology (theology of the end) to prevent us from fulfilling the creation mandate to be good stewards of the good earth in the present.

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  Is Britain breaking up?

  Should we care? And is there a particular Christian perspective on this? I think so.

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  Sri Lankan tragedy – prejudice, politicians and the press

  In Christchurch it was a mosque that was attacked. In Sri Lanka it was 'places of worship' and 'Easter worshippers'.

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  The Death of Death

  Forget all the romantic images. The Cross is so ugly that even the most hardened turned their faces away. The cruelest form of death that not even Mel Gibson's Passion could show the full extent of the horror.