Opinion

People who are grieving need the Holy Spirit, not spiritualism

Most spiritualists are simply misguided individuals struggling to cope with unresolved grief, believing that they can once again speak with their loved ones.

Methodism? Dead. Anglicanism? Not yet

Anglican evangelical leaders should take heed from the example of the Methodist mess.

Should the Bishops of Manchester and Liverpool resign?

The Bishop of Manchester's comments on Matt Hancock's affair are troubling but I feel rather more concerned by the Bishop of Liverpool.

When even secular commentators can see the moral imperative, why can't the bishop?

Matt Hancock's hypocrisy was certainly wrong, but it wasn't the biggest wrong of the whole debacle. Committing adultery on your wife must surely rank higher.

Is Islamophobia rampant in Scotland?

We have the opportunity to speak the truth in love to our Muslim neighbours. Let us pray that our politicians don't make this a hate crime.

Bringing light to the children hidden by the pandemic

It's been easy for families to hide behind closed home doors, for parents to paint on a pixilated smile on a Zoom call in the face of domestic violence, empty food cupboards or mounting debt. In these situations, it is often the needs of vulnerable children that go unmet, because they are so much harder to identify.

Chinese Communism at 100: alive and well, but could Christianity be its ultimate undoing?

This week, China celebrates 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party. But do not be fooled by the skyscrapers and consumer goods. A hundred years on, China is still a communist nation. And its leaders still hate Christians who refuse to bow to their ideology, writes Dr David Landrum.

The benefits of radical amazement

What is needed is a combination of the childlike (but not naÃ¯ve) approach to the beauty of life.

Sorry kids, no crisps or chocolate, but sex is fine

We all want the nation's young to be protected from damaging temptation and kept healthy, don't we? But why, in this climate of obsessive, and often excess, concern for safeguarding, are there not similar fears for other, potentially even more damaging, areas of harm?