Opinion

• Do traditionalist Catholics really want the Pope dead?

  Far from wanting him dead, it is more likely that faithful Catholics are praying for their Pope to become as alive in prophetic discernment as he is tender in compassion.

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  With a conversion therapy ban on the table, the threat of jail for Christians is real

  Several years ago, I wrote that I could foresee the time when I would go to jail for simply preaching and practising Christianity. That time is almost here.

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  Lessons from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in dark times

  The great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer learnt from experience how Christians should live in dark times.

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  African Christians in the UK: a 'new movement of post-colonial missionaries'

  Theologian and missiologist Dr Harvey Kwiyani speaks to Christian Today about a new Master's programme from Church Mission Society aimed at equipping African Christians for mission in the diaspora.

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  Blatantly violating the First Amendment

  In some cases, like Lorie Smith's, courts are not only ignoring conscience rights, they are actively undermining it.

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  On the value of biblical interpretation

  It's not so much about a straightforward formulae of prohibition as it is about clear principles.

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  When a whole-life sentence just isn't enough

  There's a lot the government should be doing about violence against women. But it's going to need each of us and the Church to play it's part too.

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  The Church should be at the forefront of a passionate opposition to assisted suicide

  There are two possibilities to legalising assisted suicide which are clearly foreseeable and which on their own ought to cause the most serious hesitations.

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  The truth about abortion and what 'pro-choicers' don't want women to hear

  A heartbreaking new book has laid bare all the pain, grief and trauma that so many women experience after an abortion - a reality that 'pro-choicers' want to deny.

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  Keir Starmer's gnosticism

  The marginalisation and exploitation of women continues apace – aided and abetted by intellectuals who don't think, and politicians who don't understand where their virtue signalling in support of the latest progressive cause will lead.

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  Mission is for all Christians, not just the 'called'

  In the Church the prevailing spiritual atmosphere is that 'mission' is for specific people that are 'called' and in the Western world, the spiritual atmosphere is one of hostility to the gospel. These things need to change.

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  Why do we care so much about being attractive?

  All of us, whether stunningly beautiful or not, feel pressure to look attractive.