David Robertson

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri: A brilliant film to hate

  Three Bilboards is a film that left me leaving the cinema with a spirit of heaviness, wishing that I had gone to see The Post instead.

• Ecclesiastes 4: Oppression, envy and contentment

  Jordan Peterson's bestselling 12 Rules for Life is an unusual self-help book. It talks about sin and the fact that life actually is suffering.

• Is Jordan Peterson the new Messiah?

  Dr Peterson has gathered quite a following through his psychological analysis of narratives and myths – especially of the Bible.

• Ecclesiastes 3: The naked ape and eternal life

  The late Christopher Hitchins in his last book made one of the saddest statements I have ever heard: 'I don't have a body, I am a body.'

• The Queen and Billy Graham

  The Queen is big budget, beautifully produced and the dialogue and plot are West Wing sharp.

• Why Oprah's Golden Globes speech stands for the hope, hypocrisy and hubris of Hollywood

  'What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have.' It's nice soundbite for the TV news, but it's nonsense.

• Why the great silence from our politicians over Iran?

  I don't think I have ever met an Iranian who was not highly intelligent, good looking and sophisticated.

• Solomon and the secret of happiness – wisdom from Ecclesiastes

  ow are we to pursue happiness? That is the great quest for Solomon, who so far has tried, wine, women and song and yet found that the burden of eternity outweighs them all.

• 10 'prophecies' for the Church in 2018

  With the caveat that these are observations not 'direct words from the Lord', let me offer some predictions which seem likely in this coming year.

• War, poverty, the rise of the machines? 10 'prophecies' for society in 2018

  War, poverty, the rise of the machines? Looking ahead to to the unknown of 2018, David Robertson weighs in on what we should expect.

• A merry (Calvinist) Christmas to one and all

  If you are reading this on Christmas Day, Happy Christmas. Now get off your computer or phone and go and do something less boring instead.

• Christmas in China: Why the Communist party will never control the church

  The Chinese church is going the same way as the Chinese economy – well on its way to being the largest in the world.